New York
If you want to be out with the Dutch, and in with the Duke
Wall Street
Today it is called Wall Street, and it represents the center of world finance, but in 1660, it was literally a wall that marked the northernmost edge of settlement on the island of Manhattan. Some of the street grid remains today.
The English Takeover
I was here in what used to be known as New Netherland when James, Duke of York,sent a governor, 400 troops, and several warships to conquer the colony of New Amsterdam. James gave away what is now New Jersey to Lords John Berkeley and George Carteret, and in 1667 New York's governor gave the territory on the western side of the Connecticut River to Connecticut. New Netherland had become New York. Our religious toleration attracted diverse peoples to the regions, lack of self-government kept others away. But in 1683, James listened to our complaints and allowed us to have an elective assembly. But the king refused to approve our "Charter of Libertyes and Priviledges". Without secure self-government, we fell to fighting among ourselves.
Research taken from Of The People