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  New York - MSN Encarta
It is bordered by the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Québec on the north and by Lake Ontario and Lake Erie on the northwest and west.
These provinces are: the Atlantic Coastal Plain, a subdivision of the Coastal Plain; the New England Upland province, the Piedmont Plateau, the Ridge and Valley province, the Appalachian Plateaus, the Adirondack province, and the St. Lawrence Valley province, all subdivisions of the Appalachian Region; and the Central Lowland, a sub-division of the Interior Plains.
The New England Upland province is composed of moderately rough, rolling land with smoothly rounded hilltops.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552683/New_York.html   (2368 words)

  
  Province of New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1777, New York's colonial charter was replaced by the Constitution of New York, 1777 and the English province became the independent state of New York, which fought for its independence from Britain in cooperation with the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies.
The province was granted to James, Duke of York, before the capture of the New Netherland colony from the Dutch on September 12, 1664.
New York was one of the most demographically diverse colonies in British North America, rivaling even Pennsylvania in the sheer number of ethnicities and religions present.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Province_of_New_York   (1154 words)

  
 Colonial New York
This was one cause that determined the English on the conquest of New Amsterdam.
New York now became a royal colony, and the new king, who at heart despised popular government, refused to sign the Charter of Liberties, abolished the New York assembly, and sent Andros to govern the colony as consolidated with New England and New Jersey.
News of the accession of William and Mary and of the imprisonment of Andros at Boston created a great excitement in New York; and the militia, led by Jacob Leisler, a German merchant, took possession of the government.
www.usahistory.info /colonies/New-York.html   (2939 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Province of New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The southern tip of New York State—New York City, its suburbs, and the southern portion of the Hudson Valley—can be considered to form the central core of a "megalopolis," a super-city stretching from the northern suburbs of Boston to the southern suburbs of Washington and therefore occasionally called "BosWash".
New York was heavily glaciated in the ice age leaving much of the state with deep, fertile, though somewhat rocky soils.
New York City is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, allowing it to facilitate one of the most extensive subway and bus systems in the world.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Province-of-New-York   (694 words)

  
 New York, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
Among New York’s noted houses of worship are Trinity Church, St. Paul’s Chapel (dedicated 1776), Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine (see Saint John the Divine, Cathedral of), Riverside Church, and Temple Emanu-El.
New development was marked by such events as the founding (1784) of the Bank of New York under Alexander Hamilton and the beginning of the stock exchange around 1790.
With the adoption of a new charter in 1898, New York became a city of five boroughs—New York City was split into the present Manhattan and Bronx boroughs, and the independent city of Brooklyn was annexed, as were the western portions of Queens co. and Staten Island.
www.bartleby.com /65/ne/NewYork.html   (2471 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: State of New York
New York State is divided by the Department of Agriculture of the United States into three climatological districts: (1) the Hudson, Delaware, and Susquehanna basins, (2) the Allegheny River, and (3) the Great Lakes and the St.
New York at Dunwoodie, Westchester County, which is the monument of the late Archbishop Corrigan, is one of the leading seminaries of the United States.
New York courts, the only penalty provided for the disobedience to the decree being the punishment of the offender for contempt of court, and the infliction of this penalty is unheard of at the present day.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11029a.htm   (12187 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Thomas Dongan
York, a fellow-officer under Turenne, he was appointed to high rank in the army designated for service in Flanders, and was granted an annual pension of £500.
New York, on land purchased by him for the purpose; that a settlement of Irish Catholics be founded in the centre of the Province; and that an expedition be made to explore the Mississippi River and take possession of the great valley then made
New York was dissolved by the king, and in 1688 Andros was appointed Governor of the consolidated Provinces of
www.newadvent.org /cathen/05130a.htm   (1102 words)

  
 Vic Bondi - Letter from New York
And on the cusp of the new millennium I am in New York during a political scandal where the president of the United States is pilloried for his inability to master his flesh.
I suspect that New York is no different than it was, that were I in the same circumstance as eighteen years ago it would still be dirty and menacing and worthy of destruction.
In New York, and in America, the province of New York, the vast multitude still cling to what they know is not true: The spiritual is stronger than the physical.
www.musicscene.com /bondi/newyork.htm   (1157 words)

  
 Cornwall County, Province of New York - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cornwall County was a county of the former Province of New York, established on September 5, 1665 from 25,100 Square Miles of land that had been granted to the Duke of York in modern Maine.
The remainder of this grant was lost to the Abnaki indians in a war in the Autumn of 1675.
Cornwall County was recreated on November 1, 1683, conforming to the original grant, still part of New York.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cornwall_County,_Province_of_New_York   (241 words)

  
 The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society
In 1894 a vote was taken in New York, Westchester, Kings, Queens and Richmond counties on a proposal to combine New York City with Brooklyn, the eastern Bronx, part of Queens County, and all of Richmond County, to form the second largest city in the world (after London).
In 1874 New York City and County annexed from Westchester County the area south of the City of Yonkers and west of the Bronx River.
Castleton was the closest town to New York City (by ferry), and the first to lose its rural character.
www.newyorkfamilyhistory.org /modules.php?name=Sections&op=viewarticle&artid=45   (1497 words)

  
 Captain Lachlan Campbell's New York Colony
Donald Campbell of the Province of New York Plantation.
York for the subsistence of himself and his Family consisting of three sons and three daughters.
This controversy, which was carried on with acrimonious and warlike contention arose over New York’s officials’ claim to the possession of all the land north of the Massachusetts line lying west of the Connecticut river.
www.electricscotland.com /History/highlands/chapter7.htm   (5128 words)

  
 New York Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Royal Governors of the Province of New York, the men who ruled here in the names of Britain’s kings and queens before the Revolutionary War, are forgotten.
Walpole, a notorious gossip whose father had been prime minister, claimed Cornbury had once opened a session of the New York assembly dressed as a woman, defending his conduct because, as the representative of Queen Anne, a woman, he ought in all respects represent her as faithfully as possible.
Yet New York was too economically and militarily important even then, and neither William (who disliked Cornbury, as he did most people) nor Anne (who was prudish and incorruptible) would have given a responsible post on the fringe of the Empire to an incompetent.
www.nypress.com /print.cfm?content_id=5292   (1629 words)

  
 NEW YORK - THE EMPIRE STATE
New Amsterdam was renamed New York in honor of the Duke of York and for the next 119 years, the colony remained under British rule.
New York was never content to be controlled by the British and was a hotbed of protest.
New York's future was brilliantly shaped by West Indian native Alexander Hamilton, who opposed slavery and advocated freedom for all the colonies.
www.nypost.com /seven/11222006/news/cextra/new_york___the_empire_state_cextra_jasmin_k__williams.htm?page=0   (782 words)

  
 New York Revolutionary War Era Maps on CD
A Portion of New York from the Hudson River west to the Unadilla Branch of the Susquehanna River; from the Delaware River north to Fort Stanwix.
The provinces of New York, and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania, and the governments of Trois Rivières, and Montreal: Drawn by Capt. Holland.
The provinces of New York, and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania, and the province of Quebec.
www.thehistoricalarchive.com /products/New-York-Revolution-99.html   (3579 words)

  
 Regional Community of New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Sisters of Mercy arrived in New York in 1846.
This changed in 1935 when New York and Ogdensburg were separated from Providence and became the Province of New York.
In 1991, with the advent of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, the New York Province became the Regional Community of New York.
www.newyorkmercy.org /nyhis.html   (321 words)

  
 84 Rare Revolutionary War Maps New York at USHistoricalArchive.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A Portion of New York from the Hudson River west to the Unadilla Branch of the Susquehanna River; from the Delaware River north to Fort Stanwix.
The provinces of New York, and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania, and the governments of Trois Rivières, and Montreal: Drawn by Capt. Holland.
The provinces of New York, and New Jersey; with part of Pensilvania, and the province of Quebec.
www.ushistoricalarchive.com /cds/nyrev.html   (3453 words)

  
 Old York Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In the late 1920s, the Art Commission of the City of New York commissioned Rene Paul Chambellan (1893-1955), a sculptor and architect, to produce cast iron replicas of five City Seals from different eras in New York City history.
When the highway was demolished in the late 1970s, the Art Commission moved to preserve the cast iron replicas of the seals, donating separate sets to various New York institutions and auctioning off the ones that remained.
The "Seal of the Province of New York" was adopted in 1669, five years after the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British.
www.oldyorklibrary.org /3.0/special/_04.htm   (200 words)

  
 Columbia County New York Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
But New York and Albany continued to be used for these services by some families well into the 18th century.
New Amsterdam was renamed New York and Fort Orange was renamed Albany.
They were brought as indentured servants by England's Queen Anne and New York's Governor Hunter to make tar from the pine trees in the Catskill Mountains.
www.columbiacountynewyork.com /columbiacounty-historic.htm   (958 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Province of New York Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Province of New York was an English colony that existed roughly within the current boundaries of the State of New York.
The province was granted to James, Duke of York, following the acquisition of the New Netherlands colony from the Dutch in the 1670s, and was thereafter the possession of the holder of the title of the Duke of York.
In principle, the form of government was absolutism, with the Duke of York holding supreme control.
www.ipedia.com /province_of_new_york.html   (260 words)

  
 An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera: Titles: 15
Province of Pennsilvania, County of New-Castle, and territories and tracts of land depending thereon, in America, and vice-admiral of the sa
By His Excellency, Captain General and Governor in Chief of their majesties province of New-York, province of Pennsilvania Country of New-Castle, and the territories and tracts of land depending thereon in America and Vice-admiral of the same.
Benjamin Fletcher, Captain General and Governour in chief of the Province of New York, Province of Pennsilvania, County of New-Castle, and territories and tract of land depending thereon, in America, and vice admiral of the sa
memory.loc.gov /ammem/rbpehtml/rbpebibTitles15.html   (3459 words)

  
 Local Catholic Church History and Catholic Ancestors - New York
The Archdiocese of New York encompasses the civil New York counties of
The Diocese of Ogdensburg encompasses the northeastern New York counties of
The Diocese of Syracuse encompasses the central New York counties of Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego.
home.att.net /~Local_Catholic/CatholicUS-NewYorkNY.htm   (7041 words)

  
 Province to put special emphasis on New York tourism market (05/09/20)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
DIEPPE (CNB) -- The Province of New Brunswick is investing $500,000 in 2006 for a special marketing campaign to increase awareness of the province in New York and visitation from that market, Premier Bernard Lord announced today.
The special initiative is part of the provincial government's commitment to support the increase of tourism activity in the province, and provide for increased business opportunities.
In 2004, almost half a million Americans visited the province, which is an increase of 8 per cent over the previous year.
www.gnb.ca /cnb/news/tp/2005e1209tp.htm   (383 words)

  
 Province of New York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The Province of New York was an English colony that existedroughly within the current boundaries of the State of New York.
Theoriginal boundaries also encompassed the current states of New Jersey and Vermont.
The province was granted to James, Duke of York, followingthe acquisition of the New Netherlands colony from the Dutch in the 1670s, and was thereafter thepossession of the holder of the title of the Duke of York.
www.therfcc.org /province-of-new-york-47431.html   (197 words)

  
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Sauthier's map of New York summarizes much of the British military mapping done in the years preceding the revolution.
He was eventually employed by Governor Tyron in 1776, and appointed surveyor for the Province of New York in 1773.
As surveyor for New York he was involved in determining the disputed boundaries of the province.
www.sunysb.edu /libmap/Sauthier.htm   (267 words)

  
 Seal of the City of New York medallion
In the late 1920s, the Art Commission of the City of New York commissioned Rene Paul Chambellan (1893-1955), a well known sculptor and architect, to produce models for cast iron replicas of five City Seals from different eras in New York City history.
The "Seal of the Province of New York" was adopted in 1669, five years after the Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British.
The British renamed the city "New York" for James, Duke of York, to whom the province had been granted by King Charles II.
www.lostnewyorkcity.com /store/1664.html   (237 words)

  
 Harriot Stuart's New York
"In the province of New York, the frontier settlements on the north, were at West Hoosac, Schaghticoke, Half-Moon, Stillwater, Saratoga, Schenectady, and a few up the Mohawk...
Leaving the Connecticut at that point, the boundary extended in a southwest direction, crossing Bernardston and Colrain, to North river in the latter town......Mohawk river formed the remainder of the boundary in New York; and the post at Oswego was the farthest settlement to the west.
The assembly of New York, prior to this event, had been extremely averse to offensive measures, probably form a mistaken belief that a pacific conduct, and a continuance of trade would insure safety.
xroads.virginia.edu /~MA96/owens/newyork.htm   (1410 words)

  
 Holy Name Province
HNP is one of seven provinces in the U.S. belonging to the Order of Friars Minor (OFM).
The Franciscan Friars of Holy Name Province are men who choose to live a simple life-style in community.
Following the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, the FMU of Holy Name Province seeks to nurture the spiritual, physical, technical, social, and educational growth of peoples from other cultures.
www.vocation.org   (457 words)

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