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Dongan Charter


Document Name	Dongan Charter
Image Width	250px
Image Caption	Opening paragraph of the Dongan Charter
Date Ratified	July 25, 1686
Location Of Document	Albany County Hall of Records
Writer	Governor Thomas Dongan
Purpose	Incorporated the City of Albany

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The 'Dongan Charter' is the 1686 document incorporating Albany, New York as a city. Albany's charter was issued by Governor Thomas Dongan of the Province of New York, a few months after Governor Dongan issued a similarly worded, but less detailed charter for the city of New York. The city of Albany was created three years after Albany County. The charter is the oldest existing city charter still in force in the United States and possibly in all the Western Hemisphere. In 1936 the United States Congress commemorated the charter's 250th anniversary by minting a half dollar coin.

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