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10 Cards in this Set
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Robert Livingston
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powerful land owner who owned a 160,000 acre manor in Hundson River Valley
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John Peter Zenger
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newspaper printer whose trial in 1734 was an important step toward freedom of the press
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Henry Hudson
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an English sea captain and explorer working for a Dutch trading company. He sailed up the Hudson River in 1609 as far north as present-day Albany
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Governor of New Netherland from 1647 till 1664 when Great Britain took over
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Richard Nicolls
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The first British governor of New York from 1664 till 1668
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Giovanni da Verrazano
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Italian sea captain and explorer, sailed under the flag of France and arrived in New York in 1524
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Jacques Cartier
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French explorer who traveled from Atlantic up the St Lawrence River
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Peter Minuit
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Dutch colonial governor of New Netherlands who brought Manhattan Island from the Lenni Lenape
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Frederick Philipse
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a weathly land owner. He and his wife Margaret set up the Philipsburg Manor
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James, Duke of York
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the British kings brother who was given land, he ordered a fleet of warships to New Netherland
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