The
Province of New York (1664–1783) was an
English and later
British crown territory 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.