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New Amsterdam   /nu ˈæmstərdˌæm/   Listen
New Amsterdam

noun
1.
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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"New Amsterdam" Quotes from Famous Books



... into the Connecticut valley, and disputes with the Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ... ...
— The Beginnings of New England - Or the Puritan Theocracy in its Relations to Civil and Religious Liberty • John Fiske

... Albany, or, as they called it, Fort Orange. Others were sent to the South or Delaware River, where a trading post, Fort Nassau, was built on the site of Gloucester in New Jersey. A few went to the Connecticut River; some settled on Long Island; and others on Manhattan Island, where they founded New Amsterdam, now called New ...
— A School History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... Eveleth went on again, "belong to that New York element which dates back to the time when the city was New Amsterdam, and the State, the New Netherlands. To you that means nothing, but in America it tells much. I was Naomi de Ruyter; my husband, on his mother's side, was a ...
— The Inner Shrine • Basil King

... made Irving's reputation was his Knickerbocker's History of New York, 1809, a burlesque chronicle, making fun of the old Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam, and attributed, by a familiar and now somewhat threadbare device,[1] to a little old gentleman named Diedrich Knickerbocker, whose manuscript had come into the editor's hands. The book was gravely dedicated to the New York Historical Society, and it is said ...
— Initial Studies in American Letters • Henry A. Beers



Words linked to "New Amsterdam" :   New York City, New York, settlement, Greater New York, colony



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