Discoveries of Columbus and the Cabots. Great River discovered by Hudson. Hudson detained in England. Dutch trade to the Great River. Licensed Trading Company. First Settlement. West India Company. New Netherland. First Governor. Van Administration of Nichols. Lovelace. New York retaken by the Dutch, and soon after restored to the English. Andros. Don- George Clinton appointed Governor. War with France. Expedition against Louisburg. Incursions of the French and Indians. Ope- rations of the war in 1746. Capture of the French fleet. Indian depredations. Termination of the war. Osborne appointed Governor, dies, and is succeeded by Delancey. Hostilities again Capture of Niagara. Wolfe's expedition against Quebec. War CHAP. X. FROM 1760 To 1775. 91 Prospects of the Colony. Controversy relative to the New Hamp- CHAP. XI. COMMENCEMENT OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 103 Origin of the controversy with Great Britain. State of affairs in the 114 CHAP. XII. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. FROM 1776 TO 1778. 126 CHAP. XIII. REVOLUTIONARY WAR, CONTINUED TO ITS TERMINATION. Legislative proceedings. Revival of Controversy relative to the PUBLISHED BY E. BLISS. SOLD BY HIM, AND COLLINS AND CO, WHITE, GALLAHER AND ALBANY; HASTINGS AND TRACY, AND WILLIAM WIL- LIAMS, UTICA; BEMIS AND WARD, CANANDAIGUA; E. PECK AND CO. ROCHESTER; AND DAY, FOLLET Checked AND HASKINS, BUFFALO: SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, 88. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twentieth day of October, 1. D. 1828, in the fifty third year of the Independence of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, James Conner, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "A History of the State of New York, from the first discovery of the country to the present time." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints." FRED. J. BETTS, District of New York. |