News88 Blog Of The Day 05/27/2005: Part 2 Of 6 Paragraph Essay: New York, N.Y.

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Yesterdays blog: Part 1 Of 6 Paragraph Essay: New York, N.Y.
Todays blog: Part 2 Of 6 Paragraph Essay: New York, N.Y.
Tomorrows blog: Part 3 Of 6 Paragraph Essay: New York, N.Y.

BODY OF BLOG

In 1609, Henry Hudson, who worked for the Dutch East India Company, sailed up the river that now bears his name and went as far as Albany. Five years later, a permanent settlement was established at what is now New York, but it was originally called New Amsterdam by the Dutch governors. One of them, Peter Minuit, was said to have bought Manhattan Island from the Indians in exchange for beads, buttons, and trinkets. In 1664, Great Britain's Duke of York sent a fleet that quietly seized the settlement from the Dutch without bloodshed and rechristened the colony in honor of the duke.

Control of New York passed to the young U.S. at the end of the Revolutionary War, and George Washington was inaugurated president in New York's old City Hall. Congress met in New York from 1785 to 1790.

TO BE CONTINUED..........................

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