Border disputes between New York and Connecticut
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During the American colonial era, the colonies of New York and Connecticut often disputed the precise location of their shared border, leading to a border dispute that eventually gave the colonies their modern shapes. Though the dispute was officially resolved in 1731, effects of the boundary conflict persisted until well after both colonies gained statehood as part of the United States following the American Revolution.
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Border disputes between New York and Connecticut | |||||||
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Map showing the Connecticut, New Haven, and Saybrook colonies and the CT–NY dispute | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Connecticut | New York | ||||||
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John Haynes (1638-1640) Edward Hopkins (1640-1641) John Haynes (1641-1642) George Wyllys (1642-1643) John Haynes (1643-1644) Edward Hopkins (1644-1645) John Haynes (1645-1646) Edward Hopkins (1646-1647) John Haynes (1647-1648) Edward Hopkins (1649-1650) John Haynes (1650-1651) Edward Hopkins (1651-1652) John Haynes (1652-1653) Edward Hopkins (1653-1954) John Haynes (1654) Edward Hopkins (1654-1655) Thomas Welles (1655-1656) John Webster (1656-1657) John Winthrop (1657–1658) Thomas Welles (1658-1659) John Winthrop (1659-1676) William Leete (1676-1783) Robert Treat (1683-1687) Edmund Andros (1687-1689) Robert Treat (1689-1698) Fitz-John Winthrop (1698-1707) Gurdon Saltonstall (1708-1724) Joseph Talcott (1724-1731) |
Willem Kieft (1638-1647) Peter Stuyvesant (1647-1664) Richard Nicolls (1664-1668) Francis Lovelace (1668-1672) Anthony Colve (1673-1674) Edmund Andros (1674-1681) Anthony Brockholls (1681-1683) Thomas Dongan (1683-1688) Francis Nicholson (1688-1691) Jacob Leisler (1681-1691) Henry Sloughter (1691) Richard Ingoldesby (1691-1692) Benjamin Fletcher (1692-1697) Richard Coote (1698-1701) John Nanfan (1701-1702) Edward Hyde (1702-1708) John Lovelace (1708-1709) Pieter Schuyler (1708-1709) Richard Ingoldesby (1709-1710) Gerardus Beekman (1710) Robert Hunter (1710–1719) Pieter Schuyler (1719-1720) William Burnet (1720-1728) John Montgomerie (1728-1731) Rip Van Dam (1731) | ||||||
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None | None |
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