Claes Maartenszen van Rosenvelt was a Dutch-American businessman and landowner in New Amsterdam and was the ancestor of both the Oyster Bay and Hyde Park Roosevelt Families and the 5th great-grandfath

The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. It extended from Long Island on the Atlantic, up the Hudso