Question: Charlotte County was a county in the colonial Province of New York in the British American colonies, the British colonization of the Americas (including colonization by both the English and the Scots) began in what year, in Jamestown, Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas?

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French colonization of the Americas: The French colonization of the Americas began in the 16th century, and continued on into the following centuries as France established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere.  France founded colonies in much of eastern North America, on a number of Caribbean islands, and in South America.  Most colonies were developed to export products such as fish, sugar, and furs.

Restraining Acts 1775: The Restraining Acts of early 1775 were two Acts passed by the Parliament of Great Britain, which limited colonial trade in response to both increasing and spreading civil disobedience in Massachusetts and New England, and similar trade restrictions instituted by elected colonial representatives.  With time the foment would spread to most of its American Colonies.  The first restraining act, (15 Geo.  III c. 10) known variously as the New England Trade And Fisheries Act, the New England Restraining Act, or the Trade Act 1775 (c.10), limited the export and import of any goods to and from only Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies; it also prohibited the New England colonies from fishing in the waters off Newfoundland and most of America's Atlantic coast, without special permissions and documentation, and imposed stiff penalties on both perpetrators and administrators if violations occurred.  Previously legal or finessed trade between the colonies themselves or with other nations was prohibited, and enforced by naval blockade, effective July 1, 1775.  The second restraining act, (15 Geo.  III c. 18) known as the Trade Act 1775 (c.18), similarly limited the export or import of any goods by way of only Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West Indies for most colonies south of New England; it was passed shortly after the first, upon receiving news in April that the colonial's trade boycott had spread widely among other colonies.  Only New York, Delaware, North Carolina and Georgia would escape these restraints on trade, but only for a few months.

History of the Thirteen Colonies: The history of the Thirteen Colonies began in 1607 with the founding Jamestown.  British colonization of the Americas continued in the following decades with the establishment of more colonies on the present-day East Coast of the United States.  By 1740, there were thirteen contiguous colonies, each administered separately as part of the British Empire.  The Thirteen Colonies collectively declared independence in 1776 and formed a union which they named the United States of America.  This led to the American Revolutionary War, which formally ended with the signing of the 1783 Treaty of Paris.

Join, or Die: Join, or Die is a political cartoon, drawn by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his "Pennsylvania Gazette" on May 9, 1754.  The original publication by the "Gazette" is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America.  It is a woodcut showing a snake cut into eighths, with each segment labeled with the initials of one of the American colonies or regions.  New England was represented as one segment, rather than the four colonies it was at that time.  Delaware was not listed separately as it was part of Pennsylvania.  Georgia, however, was omitted completely.  Thus, it has eight segments of snake rather than the traditional 13 colonies.  The two northernmost British American colonies at the time, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, were not represented, nor were any British Caribbean possessions.  The cartoon appeared along with Franklin's editorial about the "disunited state" of the colonies, and helped make his point about the importance of colonial unity.  This cartoon was used in the French and Indian War to symbolize that the colonies needed to join together with the Kingdom of Great Britain to defeat the French and Indians.  It became a symbol of colonial freedom during the American Revolutionary War.

British colonization of the Americas: The British colonization of the Americas (including colonization by both the English and the Scots) began in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia and reached its peak when colonies had been established throughout the Americas.  The British were among the most important colonizers of the Americas, and their American empire came to rival the Spanish American colonies in military and economic might.

Stamp Act Congress: The Stamp Act Congress or First Congress of the American Colonies was a meeting held between October 7 and 25, 1765 in New York City, consisting of representatives from some of the British colonies in North America; it was the first gathering of elected representatives from several of the American colonies to devise a unified protest against new British taxation.  Parliament had passed the Stamp Act, which required the use of specially stamped paper for legal documents, playing cards, calendars, newspapers and dice for virtually all business in the colonies, and was going into effect on November 1.

Townshend Acts: The Townshend Acts were a series of British acts passed beginning in 1767 and relating to the British American colonies in North America.  The acts are named after Charles Townshend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who proposed the program.  Historians vary slightly as to which acts they include under the heading "Townshend Acts", but five acts are often mentioned: the Revenue Act of 1767, the Indemnity Act (1767), the Commissioners of Customs Act (1767), the Vice Admiralty Court Act (1768), and the New York Restraining Act (1767).  The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain, to create a more effective means of enforcing compliance with trade regulations, to punish the province of New York for failing to comply with the 1765 Quartering Act, and to establish the precedent that the British Parliament had the right to tax the colonies.  The Townshend Acts (1767) were met with resistance in the colonies, prompting the occupation of Boston by British troops in 1768, which eventually resulted in the Boston Massacre of 1770.

Charlotte County, Province of New York: Charlotte County was a county in the colonial Province of New York in the British American colonies.  It was created from Albany County on March 24, 1772.  The county was named for Charlotte, Princess Royal, oldest daughter and fourth child of George III of the United Kingdom.  Its boundaries extended far further than any current county.  Its western boundary ran "from the Mohawk River to the Canada line, at a point near the old village of St. Regis and passing south to the Mohawk between Schenectady and Albany."  Its southern boundary was near present-day Saratoga Springs.  Much of western Vermont, then claimed by New York, was also part of the county.  Its northern border was also the Canada–US border.  Its county seat was Fort Edward.

Tryon County, New York: Tryon County was a county in the colonial Province of New York in the British American colonies.  It was created from Albany County on March 24, 1772, and was named for William Tryon, the last provincial governor of New York.  The county's boundaries extended much further than any current county.  Its eastern boundary ran "from the Mohawk River to the Canada line, at a point near the old village of St. Regis and passing south to the Mohawk between Schenectady and Albany."  It extended north to the St. Lawrence River; its western boundary was the Treaty of Fort Stanwix's Line of Property, following the Unadilla River, Oneida Lake, Onondaga River and Oswego River to Lake Ontario, as the Iroquois Confederacy still controlled locations further west in the Indian Reserve.  Tryon County's seat was Johnstown, which is today the county seat of Fulton County.  The Tryon County Courthouse, built in 1772–1773, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.  The Tryon County Jail, also built in 1772–1773, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

Stamp Act 1765: The Stamp Act of 1765 (short title "Duties in American Colonies Act 1765"; 5 George III, c. 12) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying an embossed revenue stamp.  Printed materials included legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies.  Like previous taxes, the stamp tax had to be paid in valid British currency, not in colonial paper money.  The purpose of the tax was to help pay for troops stationed in North America after the British victory in the Seven Years' War and its North American theater of the French and Indian War.  The Americans said that there was no military need for the soldiers because there were no foreign enemies on the continent, and the Americans had always protected themselves against Indians.  They suggested that it was actually a matter of British patronage to surplus British officers and career soldiers who should be paid by London.

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Answer: 1607