Colonial New York

Province of New York
Colony of England (1664–1707) Colony of Great Britain (1707–1776)
1664–1783
Flag Seal of the Province of New York, 1767
A map of the Province of New York.
Capital		New York City
Languages		English, Dutch, Iroquoian languages, Algonquian languages
Government		Constitutional monarchy
King
•	1664–85	Charles II
•	1769–76	George III
Royal Governor
•	1664–1783	List of colonial governors of New York
Legislature		New York
•	Upper house	New York Executive Council
•	Lower house	New York Assembly
History
•	Capture of New Amsterdam	August 28, 1664
•	Treaty of Paris (1783)	November 25, 1783
Currency		New York pound
Preceded by Succeeded by New Netherland New York (state) Vermont Republic
Today part of		United States

The Province of New York (1664–1776) was a British crown colony that originally included all of the present U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Vermont, along with inland portions of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine, as well as eastern Pennsylvania. The majority of this land was soon reassigned by the Crown, leaving territory that included the valleys of the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, and Vermont. The territory of western New York was Iroquois land, also disputed between the English colonies and New France, and that of Vermont was disputed with the Province of New Hampshire.

The province resulted from the Dutch Republic surrender of Provincie Nieuw-Nederland to the Kingdom of England in 1664. Immediately after, the province was renamed for James, Duke of York, brother of Charles II of England. The colony was one of the Middle Colonies, and ruled at first directly from England.

The New York Provincial Congress of local representatives declared itself the government on May 22, 1775, first referred to the "State of New York" in 1776, and ratified the New York State Constitution in 1777. While the British regained New York City during the American Revolutionary War using it as its military and political base of operations in North America, and a British governor was technically in office, much of the remainder of the former colony was held by the Patriots. British claims on any part of New York ended with the Treaty of Paris of 1783. After the American Revolution, the former colony became the State of New York.