History of New York City (prehistory–1664) as a city and to incidentally allow New York to celebrate its 350th anniversary just 11 years after its 300th. The English renamed the colony New York, after the king's brother James, Duke of York and on June 12, 1665, appointed Thomas Willett the first of the mayors of New York. The city grew northward, remaining the largest and most important city in the colony of New York. History of New York City (prehistory–1664) The history of New York City has been influenced by the prehistoric geological formation during the last glacial period of the territory that is today New
Thomas Gamble (mayor) Thomas Gamble (mayor) Thomas Gamble, Jr. (March 16, 1868 – July 13, 1945) was an American historian and a politician from Georgia, United States. He was Mayor of Savannah and was a Democrat. Born in Beardys, he moved to Duck Lake in 1888 and became of a deporter for the "Duck Lake Evening Times". He published a number of history books, including "A History of the City Government of Savannah, Ga. from 1790 to 1901" and "Brody's Duels and Duelists, 1733-1877". Gamble served as Mayor of Tybee Beach and Secretary to the Mayor of Savannah, until he became Savannah's chief