Founders of Colonial New York
The first Europeans to discover New York was Henry Hudson and his followers in 1609. Henry Hudson was on his way to find China but instead, he ended up in New York. New York ended up being claimed by the Netherlands when Henry Hudson spread the word of his findings. In 1624 Peter Minuit made the first permanent settlement in New York and the settlement was named Fort Orange. Fort Orange developed into modern day Albany. Before the Europeans founded New York, there were Native Americans that lived on the Delaware and Hudson River to survive. The Native Tribe is known as the Algonquian. This tribe hunted, fished, and farmed to survive. They had a dynamic economy before the Europeans came.
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New York became a colony in 1664 and consisted of the Middle Region along with New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. As a colony, New York cared strictly about economy and developed off of money and not religious beliefs or education. Although New York did not base their colony on religion, they still had religious beliefs. The New York colony had a varying amount of religions. They were surrounded by Puritans and Catholics so they had people of multiple faiths. The primary religion was possibly Protestantism
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