Chapters: Province of New York, Middle Colonies, Colony of Virginia, Colonial South and the Chesapeake, Connecticut Colony, Province of Maryland, Province of Pennsylvania, Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Delaware Colony, Province of Georgia, Catholic Church in the Thirteen Colonies, Province of New Hampshire, Education in the Thirteen Colonies, Province of Massachusetts Bay, Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, Southern Colonies, Chesapeake Colonies, Royal Colony of North Carolina. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 116. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Province of New York (16641775) resulted from the surrender of Provincie Nieuw-Nederland by the Dutch Republic to the Kingdom of England in 1664. The province was renamed for James, Duke of York, brother of Charles II of England, immediately after. The territory was one of the Middle Colonies, and originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Maine. Ruled at first directly from England, the New York Provincial Congress of local representatives declared itself the government on May 22, 1775, first referred to the "State of New York" in 1776, and ratified the New York State Constitution in 1777. While the British regained New York City during the American Revolutionary War using it as its military and political base of operations in North America, and a British governor was technically in office, much of the remainder of the former colony was held by the Patriots. British claims on any part of New York ended with the Treaty of Paris (1783). This English province was established upon the former Dutch territory of New Netherland, with its core being York Shire, in what today is typical...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=48694