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New Amsterdam

noun

A settlement established by the Dutch near the mouth of Hudson River and the southern end of Manhattan Island; annexed by the English in 1664 and renamed New York.

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... concluding that he had been robbed by his roommate. It was hard to believe that a Stuyvesant—a representative of one of the old Dutch families of New Amsterdam—should have stooped to such a discreditable act. Carl was sharp enough, however, to doubt the genuineness of Mr. Stuyvesant's claims to aristocratic lineage. Meanwhile he blamed himself for being so easily duped ...

— Driven From Home - Carl Crawford's Experience • Horatio Alger

... was.—Van Twiller was a Dutchman. Born at Rotterdam. Descended from burgomasters. In 1629 appointed governor of Nieuw Nederlandts. Arrived in June at New Amsterdam—New York city. ...

— Higher Lessons in English • Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg

... obtained a grant of New Netherland, and New Amsterdam was fairly started. In 1626, Minuit, the first governor, arrived, and, as we have stated, purchased the entire city of New York of the ...

— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... is followed to-day by whaleback steamers with their cargoes of Manitoba wheat. To-day the Mohawk depression through the northern Appalachians diverts some of Canada's trade from the Great Lakes to the Hudson, just as in the seventeenth century it enabled the Dutch at New Amsterdam and later the English at Albany to tap the fur trade of Canada's frozen forests. Formerly a line of stream and portage, it carries now the Erie Canal and New York Central Railroad.[2] Similarly the narrow ...

— Influences of Geographic Environment - On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography • Ellen Churchill Semple

... on various subjects ranging from prehistoric beasts to Bernard Shaw. The ballads are mock-heroic, parodies of the ballads of chivalry. In other verses the Puritans, the Dutch inhabitants of New Amsterdam are gently satirized. ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... "New Amsterdam, madame," replied the Prince, "and after that the Sunda Islands and beautiful Java with its sun and ...

— The Beach of Dreams • H. De Vere Stacpoole

... smoothly shaven, and the eyes twinkled with kindly humor and shrewdness. There was a chirping, cheery, old-school air in the whole appearance, an undeniable Dutch aspect, which, in the streets of New Amsterdam, irresistibly recalled Diedrich Knickerbocker. The observer might easily have supposed that he saw some later descendant of the renowned Wouter Van Twiller refined into a nineteenth-century gentleman. The occasional start of interest as the figure was recognized by some one in the ...

— Literary and Social Essays • George William Curtis

... book contains an account of Hudson's discovery of the river that bears his name and of the settlement of New Amsterdam. ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester