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This short REFERENCE PAGE is designed to provide no more than a 'glimpse' of the history of the State,
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Topography: The extreme length of New York east and west is 412 miles; greatest breadth from the Canadian boundary to Staten Island, 311 miles; area, 49,170 square miles, or 31,468,800 acres.

The outline of the State is very irregular, and two-thirds of the boundaries are formed by navigable waters, giving New York a total water frontage of 880 miles. Long Island, Manhattan and Staten Islands are by far the most important divisions, distinct from the main land.

The narrow belt lying east of the Hudson river valley is intersected by spurs of the Hoosac and Green mountains, while the rolling table lands to the west are traversed by the Blue Ridge and the Highland chains, the Catskill, Helderberg and Adirondacks.

The chief river is the Hudson, which rises in the Adirondacks and has a southerly course of 300 miles to New York Bay. The Allegheny and its tributaries drain the southwest, and the Susquehanna the southern central division. The Mohawk is the chief affluent of the Hudson.

The State is noted for the beauty of its lakes. In the west are Chautauqua and Cattaraugus; in the central division Canandaigua, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida and others having the Oswego river for their outlet.

The mean for the State for the year is 46.50º Fahrenheit, while in the Adirondacks the annual mean does not exceed 40º, and in the extreme south it is about 50º.

The average annual precipitation is about forty-two inches, the greatest fall being in the lower Hudson valley, and the least (thirty-two inches) in the valley of the St. Lawrence.

History: New York was first made known to Europeans by the exploration of Henry Hudson, who, in September, 1609, discovered the Bay of New York and sailed up the river which now bears his name.

Two months earlier Samuel de Champlain had discovered and named Lake Champlain. Hudson being in the employ of the Dutch, Holland claimed the territory, and by 1621 Dutch settlements were made on Manhattan Island, and at Albany and other points, while the name of the "New Netherlands" was applied to the country.

Manhattan Island was purchased for twenty-four dollars from the Indians in 1626. Troubles with the Indians occurred 1640-45, and in 1655 the Swedish settlements on the Delaware were incorporated with the New Netherlands.

The English claimed the country as a part of Virginia, and in August, 1664, captured Manhattan (New Amsterdam) and named it New York. The Dutch afterwards regained possession, but held it less than a year, after which it was permanently transferred to the English.

In 1754 the Anglo-French war began, and New York became the battle-field of the contending forces. In 1763 hostilities were brought to an end by the treaty of Paris, under which Canada was ceded to the British. New York took a prominent part in the great Revolution.

In May, 1775, Ethan Allen and his "Green Mountain Boys" captured Crown Point and Ticonderoga, and in October following the last royal governor of New York was forced to flee.

For many years prior to this New York had been engaged in disputes with the colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts and the Vermont settlers regarding their boundaries, and the troubles with the latter were not brought to an end until 1791, when Vermont was admitted as a State.

In February, 1776, an American force took possession of the city of New York, but in August following the British resumed control and held Manhattan Island until Nov. 25, 1783. Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in October, 1777, was the first great success of the colonists.

West Point was fortified 1777-78, and in 1780 was nearly lost by the treason of Benedict Arnold. New York City was the seat of the colonial government until the Revolution, and the State capital from 1784 to 1797, when Albany was made the capital.

It was also the seat of the United States government from 1785 to 1790. During the war of 1812-14 the border towns of New York were attacked by the British forces. The first State constitution was adopted in 1777, and was revised in 1801, 1821 and 1846, slavery being abolished in 1817.

During the late Civil war New York furnished 448,850 troops to the Federal armies.

Population: Census of 1880: Males, 2,505,322; Females, 2,577,549; Native, 8,871,492; Foreign, 1,211,379; White, 5,016,022; Colored, 66,849, including 909 Chinese, 17 Japanese, and 819 Indians.

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