From 1619 on, not long after the first settlement, the need for colonial labor was bolstered ... 1741: Fires break out in New York City, which has the second-largest urban population of blacks.

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Before New York was New York, it was New Amsterdam: a Dutch settlement named for the canal-filled city back home. This year ...

The European settlement of what would become New York was led by the Dutch, settling along the Hudson River in 1624. They established the colony of New Amsterdam on the island of Manhattan.

[4] In Britain, the number of capital offenses continually increased until the 1700’s when two hundred ... and treason.[8] The New York colony instituted the so-called Duke’s Laws of 1665.

The large arc of flat land curving through Pittsburgh's East End seems out of place, but it's actually an ancient riverbed ...

Prior to the American Revolution in the late 1700s, there were more ... enslaved Africans accounted for 20% of New York’s population, while 40% of colonial New York household owned enslaved ...

Visitors may still access the parkway at Fusiliers Road to reach scenic pull-outs along the York River ... of the project. A map of the detours and closings on the Colonial Parkway during Phase ...

He visited the established Eastern cities Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, where he found some ... Based on his observations of several frontier colonies, Baily described what he called ...

The renovated hotel will join nearly 1,000 other Fairfield properties around the world, from New York to Seoul ... Western Plus Colony Inn property in Atascadero. Here’s a map of where the ...

By Ana Ley A section of the highway, a crucial link between Connecticut and New York City, had closed on Thursday when fuel from a burning tanker ignited an overpass. By Chelsia Rose Marcius For ...