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	Albany - MSN Encarta
		Albany, city in eastern New York, capital of the state, and seat of Albany County, on the high west bank of the Hudson River.
		Albany’s nickname, “Cradle of the Union,” resulted from the meeting here in 1754 of the Albany Congress, which adopted Benjamin Franklin’s Plan of Union, the first formal proposal to unite the colonies.
		Albany’s economy declined in the mid-20th century but was revived by the construction of major government facilities beginning in the 1960s.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761562236/Albany_(city_New_York).html (707 words)

	Albany Colleges \| Albany, NY Universities
		Albany, the capital of New York State, is one of the major centers of student activity in the area.
		Albany is particularly known for its active artistic community, which is centered on the student area and is to some extent a result of the colleges and universities of the area.
		Albany is the capital of the state of New York, located in the eastern part of the state on the west bank of the Hudson River.
	www.colleges-in-new-york.com /location/albany.htm (413 words)

	Duke of York at AllExperts
		The title Duke of York is a title of nobility usually given to the second son of the British monarch, unless the title is already held by an earlier monarch's son who is still alive.
		The current Duke of York is The Prince Andrew, second son of Queen Elizabeth II.
		Recognised as Duke of York by the Papacy; Modena; France and Spain.
	en.allexperts.com /e/d/du/duke_of_york.htm (1129 words)

	Hudson Valley Business Directory - Albany County - Hudson Valley - New York State (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Albany County was one of the original twelve counties created by New York State in 1683.
		From 1772 to 1786 Albany County included, besides the present territory of Albany County, all of the present Columbia, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady Counties, parts of the present Greene and Washington Counties, and a piece of what is now southwestern Vermont.
		Albany County is in the east central part of New York State, extending southward and westward from the point where the Mohawk River joins the Hudson.
	www.hudsonvalleydirectory.com /albany_ (729 words)

	ipedia.com: Duke Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The term duke is a title of nobility which refers to the sovereign male ruler of a Continental European duchy, to a nobleman of the highest grade of the British peerage, or t...
		In the United Kingdom, the current royal dukes are HRH the Prince of Wales, who is Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay; HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip), HRH the Duke of York (Prince Andrew), HRH the Duke of Gloucester (Prince Richard), and HRH the Duke of Kent (Prince Edward).
		For example, when the current Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Kent are succeeded by their eldest sons, the Earl of Ulster and the Earl of St. Andrews, respectively, those peerages (or rather, the 1928 and 1934 creations of them) will cease to be associated with royalty.
	www.ipedia.com /duke.html (1054 words)

	Albany City History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Albany supported the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia and served as a focal point for military planning and as a supply center for the Revolutionary War effort.
		Albany native Philip Livingston was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
		In 1797, Albany officially became the Capital of New York and in the 19th century, the City became a center of transportation with the advent of the steamboat and the Erie Canal in 1825.
	www.albanyny.org /government/history/index.asp (376 words)

	Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was created Duke of York and Albany and Earl of Ulster on 29 November 1784 and became a member of the Privy Council.
		On 29 September 1791 at Charlottenburg, Berlin, and again on 23 November 1791 at Buckingham Palace, the Duke of York married his cousin Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, the daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
		In 1793, the Duke of York was sent to Flanders in command of the British contingent of Coburg's army destined for the invasion of France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prince_Frederick,_Duke_of_York (1206 words)

	New York - MSN Encarta
		Charles granted to his brother James, Duke of York and Albany, all the land between the Connecticut and Delaware rivers.
		In 1685 the Duke of York and Albany became king as James II, and he included New York within the Dominion of New England, a colony that incorporated most of New England under the close control of a royal governor.
		In July 1776 the New York congress ratified the Declaration of Independence and changed its own name to the Convention of Representatives of the State of New York.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761552683_9/New_York.html (1438 words)

	Albany, New York information - Search.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Duke of Albany was a Scottish title given since 1398, generally to a younger son of the Scottish King.
		Albany was formally chartered as a municipality by Governor Thomas Dongan on 1686-07-22.
		Albany is the hub city of the Capital District, which itself is a large component of the Albany-Schenectady-Troy Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) which was ranked the 56th most populous in the United States of America in the 2000 Census, with a total population of 825,875.
	c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Albany,_New_York (3041 words)

	Albany County, New York NY, county profile - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Albany County is one of 62 counties in New York.
		The county is in the Albany metro area.The estimated population in 2004 was 298,432.
		This was an increase of 1.31% from the 2000 census.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=22456 (585 words)

	MA&O 2004 - Capital District History
		Albany (founded in 1609) was originally known as Fort Orange and was renamed "Albany" in 1664 to honor the Duke of York and Albany.
		It is the capital (1797) of the state of New York, U.S., and seat (1683) of Albany county.
		Albany is the heart of a metropolitan area that includes Troy and Schenectady.
	www.rpi.edu /~messac/mao-2004/albany_history.htm (656 words)

	Albany Tourism
		Albany is surrounded by excellent views, from the spectacular coastal scenery and rugged cliff-top beauty of Torndirrup National Park to the calm and beautiful island strewn swimming bays.
		Albany never became a penal colony; instead it remained a military outpost for New South Wales and by the early 1830s, everyone was calling the settlement ‘Albany’.
		Albany is cooled by breezes from the south and has a summer climate reaching approximately 27C during the day; in winter around 18C.
	www.discoverwest.com.au /western_australia/albany.html (1279 words)

	Cheryl Bolen
		While dining with the Melbournes, Frederick, the Duke of York and Albany and King George III’s favorite son, remarked that he was tired of his house in Whitehall and would like a house like theirs, whereupon his hostess said she would gladly exchange the chimes of St. James for the chimes of Westminster Abbey.
		Albany’s earliest resident of distinction was Matthew Gregory Lewis, who from the age of 21 was known by the name of his enormously successful novel, The Monk.
		The Duke of Devonshire sold it for 57,000 pounds to his uncle, Lord George Cavendish, who was the grandson of the third Earl of Burlington, who had remodeled the house a hundred years earlier.
	www.cherylbolen.com /albany.htm (3274 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Albany
		Albany was Father Isaac Jogues, who reached Ossernenon, or Auriesville, in Montgomery County, 14 August, 1642, as a captive of the cruel and treacherous Mohawks.
		Albany, whilst its rector, and evidenced administrative capacity of a high order in the management of its affairs.
		Albany was the chief beneficiary of the enterprise, it became the principal distributing centre of the army of labourers who flocked into it in quest of employment.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/01256a.htm (2291 words)

	Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany information - Search.com
		On 29 September1791 at Charlottenburg, Berlin, and again on 23 November 1791 at Buckingham Palace, the Duke of York married his cousin Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia, the daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia and Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Lüneburg.
		In 1793, the Duke of York was sent to Flanders in command of the British contingent of Coburg's army destined for the invasion of France.
		Following the death of his niece Princess Charlotte of Wales in 1817, the Duke of York became second in line to the throne, with a serious chance of inheriting it, and heir presumptive when George III died in 1820.
	www.search.com /reference/Prince_Frederick,_Duke_of_York_and_Albany (1196 words)

	New York State Senate >> About the Senate >> Historical Timeline
		Duke of York appoints new royal governor, Thomas Dongan, and directs him to call for a general assembly which would have the power to pass laws subject to the approval of the governor and the duke himself.
		Delegates to New York's Provincial Congress are elected by twelve New York counties, with the majority of delegates being Patriots instead of Loyalists.
		New York's Royal Governor William Tryon, appointed to the position in 1771, is forced to leave New York City and stay on a British warship anchored in the harbor.
	www.senate.state.ny.us /sws/about/timeline.html (3402 words)

	Environmental Policy of Norway And Sweden Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Albany is situated on the Hudson River, nestled between the Berkshire Mountains to the east, the Green Mountains to the northeast, the Adirondack Mountains to the north, the Mohawk (River) Valley to the west, and Catskill Mountains to the southwest.
		Albany (originally known as Fort Orange, in 1664 renamed "Albany" to honor the Duke of York and Albany)- founded 1609, "capital (1797) of the state of New York, U.S., and seat (1683) of Albany county.
		Albany is the oldest continuing settlement in the nation.
	www.siena.edu /norwaysweden/Albany.asp (966 words)

	Albany: History
		Albany became a fur-trading center and a residence for owners of the ships that carried produce down the Hudson River to the Atlantic and on to the West Indies.
		Albany was declared the capital of New York State in 1797.
		Albany, despite its reliance on government as its primary economic sector, was affected by the economic downturn of the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted from a decline in the high technology sector.
	www.city-data.com /us-cities/The-Northeast/Albany-History.html (517 words)

	Armoria civica - Albany DC
		It is a matter of dispute whether it was named for Frederick Augustus (1763-1827), Duke of York and Duke of Albany, who had been British Commander-in-Chief during the Napoleonic Wars, or for the city of Albany, New York, birthplace of Col Jacob Glen Cuyler, a Dutch-speaking United Empire Loyalist and first British landdrost of Uitenhage.
		But since both Albany and New York were named after James, Duke of York and Albany (1633-1701, king as James II until 1688), there is a definite link to the Scottish royal dukedom.
		The arms symbolise Albany as the centre of British, and especially English, settlement during and after the settlement scheme of 1820 – Grahamstown, the district seat, is dominated by the 1820 Settlers National Monument, a conference centre on Gunfire Hill, overlooking the valley in which most of the city lies.
	www.geocities.com /muurkroon/AlbanyDC.html (732 words)

	These United States - New York
		New York was the 11th of the original 13 states to ratify the Constitution, on July 26, 1788.
		The geographic center of New York lies in Madison County, 12 miles south of Oneida and 26 miles SW of Utica.
		New York is named for the Duke of York and Albany, who received patent to New Netherland from his brother Charles II and sent an expedition to capture it in 1664.
	www.theseunitedstates.com /newyork.html (305 words)

	Edward Augustus - Duke of York and Albany - brother of King George III - at James Boswell - a guide
		Duke of York and Albany) Second son of Frederick (1707-1751), Prince of Wales, and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha (1719-1772).
		Heir-presumptive to the British throne from the death of George II in 1760 until the birth of George, Prince of Wales on 12/8-1762.
		This upset the young Duke, and the two of them are not known to have met again.
	www.jamesboswell.info /People/biography-171.php (223 words)

	New York's Capital District - Albany Attractions
		Albany is the capital of the state of New York.
		Albany is the home of the State University of New York at Albany and the College of Saint Rose, the Sage College of Albany, Albany Law School, Albany Medical College, and the Albany College of Pharmacy.
		When the British took over in 1664, the name was changed to Albany, to honor of the Duke of York and Albany, who later became James II of England.
	www.fortunecity.com /oasis/yellowstone/128/albany.html (469 words)

	VZ Local - Albany, New York City Guide
		Albany Institute of History and Art - Victorian salon, colonial exhibits, traveling and changing exhibits; Hudson-Mohawk Valley paintings and sculpture; contemporary art; changing exhibits and programs promote fine arts as well as regional history; research library with archival material.
		Albany is the capital of the state of New York in the United States of America.
		Albany was one of the earlier permanent settlements in the thirteen original American colonies.
	www.vzlocal.com /Albany-NY.html (1503 words)

	American Shores - Maps of the Middle Atlantic Region to 1850
		The state capital, Albany was once known as Beaver Wyck, reflective of the 17th century Dutch fur trade headquartered there.
		It was renamed in 1664 for James, Duke of York and Albany, who later became King James II of England.
		Albany's location at the termination of the canals and railroads made it a center of trade and transshipment.
	www.nypl.org /research/midatlantic/geo_albany.html (244 words)

	astro.iinet.net.au - Albany Western Australia - November 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The City of Albany, located on the south coast of Western Australia, was officially named by Governor Stirling at the beginning of 1832.
		It is named after Frederick, the Duke of Albany and York, and the favourite son of King George III.
		Albany was the site of the first settlement in W.A. when Major Edmund Lockier of the 57th Regiment, under instructions from the N.S.W. Govt.
	www.nachohat.org /p/southwest_nov2001/albany.html (346 words)

	New York to Pennsylvania 1664-1744 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In June 1664 the Duke of York granted the territory of New Jersey between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to his friends John Berkeley and George Carteret, who were also among the proprietors of Carolina.
		The Duke of York instructed Governor Lovelace of New York to support the proprietors of New Jersey and ruled that the two Nicolls grants were void.
		While the Duke of York was in Scotland, George Fox urged his friend Robert Barclay to intervene on behalf of West Jersey.
	www.san.beck.org /11-8-NYtoPenn1664-1744.html (16138 words)

	Landmarks -Albany State Capitol Building - Take The Fascinating Journey Through New York State - Lincoln-Titus ...
		Before Europeans settled in the current New York State capital of Albany, it was home to a tribe of Native Americans, known as the Mohicans.
		The English captured Fort Orange and renamed it Albany in honor of the Duke of York and Albany, James II.
		Albany became the center for fur trading among the English colonies.
	www.lakelandschools.org /lt/NewYorkVM/landmarksalbany.htm (162 words)

	HRH THE DUKE OF YORK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		York, previous creations: Unless one counts William de Aumale, briefly Earl of Yorkshire from late August 1138, it may be said that York as a title has only ever existed as a Dukedom and has invariably been conferred on an immediate member of the Royal family, usually the Sovereign's next to eldest son.
		The first Duke of York was EDMUND of Langley, EDWARD III's 4th surviving son and founder of the House of York.
		The dual form DUKE OF YORK AND ALBANY was resuscitated by GEORGE II in 1760, six months before his own death, when he conferred that title on his eldest son's second son EDWARD AUGUSTUS, the future GEORGE III's next younger brother.
	www.burkes-peerage.net /Sites/Peerage/SitePages/page62-6e.asp (763 words)

	Albany Charter Half Dollar
		A typical example, the Albany half dollar was authorized during the late spring of 1936, at the very height of the speculative market in commemorative coins.
		Albany was originally a Dutch village, Rensselaers-wyck, founded by Kiliaen Van Rensselaer in 1630 on the banks of the Hudson River.
		The Dutch came to terms with this new establishment and in 1685, the Van Rensselaers surrendered their claim to the village, which was renamed Albany after the Duke of York and Albany.
	www.coinsite.com /content/Commemoratives/Albany.asp (1346 words)

	Admiral's Regiment Home Page
		His Grace the Duke of York and Albany is looking for Musketeers for Captain Middleton's Company of His Maritime Regiment of Foote.
		The Admiral's Regiment is a recreated regiment of infantry from the period of the English Restoration 1660-1685.
		Duke of York and Albany's Regiment, Captain Middleton's Company, is based in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.
	www.lukehistory.com /admirals/index.html (402 words)

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