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Nieuw Nederland: Old New York

Dutch Names in New York

Nieuw Nederland 2 New Holland (New Netherlands) Nieuw Amsterdam 2 New Amsterdam Amersfoort Beekman 2 Bergen 2 Beverwijk 2 blekers ('bleachers'- whitening) 2 Bleecker St. Boswijk Bushwick? bouwerij ('farm' - old-fashioned) 2 the Bowery de Brede Weg 2 Broadway Breukelen 2 Brooklyn Jonas Bronck the Bronx Fort Nassau Fort Oranje 2 (Albany) Gansevoort 2 's-Gravesande 2 Gravesend? Greenwijk 2 Greenwich? Haarlem Harlem Heemstede Hempstead Hoboken Inclenberg (now: Murray's Hill) jonker (squire, large landowner) 2 Yonkers Kats Kill ('cats' river' or: '(Mr) Kaat's creek') 2 Catskills Kinderhoek ('children's corner' or: '(Mr) Kinder's Land') 2 Van Buren's 'Kinderhook' Konijneneiland ('rabbits' island') Coney Island Kraailoo (Crailo) Crailo Kromme Zee ('crooked lake') 2 ???Gramercy Kykuit (kijkuit = lookout) 2 Rockefeller estate in the Catskills

't Lange Eiland '(the) Long Island' Long Island Middelburg 2 Nassau Nederhorst 2 Nooten Eylandt ('nuts' island') now: Governor's Island Pavonia ('pauw' 2 'peacock') "Mr. Pauw's Land" (~Latin) Rensselaar Rensselaarswijk Schermerhorn 2 Schuylkill ('hidden river') Spuyten Duyvil ('the devil's hose'?) 2 Staten Land Staten Island Texel 2 Utrecht 2 Varkenshoek ('pigs' corner') 2 Varkenskill ('pigs' river') Vlacke Bos Flatbush? Vlissingen Flushing Vriesendaal Walstraat 2 Wall Street Warmond 2 Watervliet 2 Willemstad 2 Wiltwyck (now: Kingston) Wijck Hoff (Wijkhof) ('town/neighborhood court') 2 became: Wyckoff Noord Rivier the Hudson Zuid Rivier the Delaware Verse Rivier (fresh-water river?) the Connecticut Zwanendaal (swans' valley) (the Delaware colony)

Before there was a New York, English sailors already used the name 'Flushing' for the Dutch port of Vlissingen According to Nicoline van der Sijs (Cookies, Coleslaw and Stoops - Amsterdam 2009) Mr Stuyvesant's first name was Pieter - Pieter Stuyvesant 2 - of course English 'Peter' sounds very much like Dutch Pieter.

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Dutch Names in New York (2)

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Dutch Names and Words from
Russell Shorto: The Island at The Center of The World Vintage Books, New York, 2004

Dutch Towns Leuven (Louvain, Belgium) Leiden Breda Amsterdam Rotterdam hear Antwerpen (Belgium) Den Briel Münster (Germany) Osnabrück (Germany) 's Gravenhage = Den Haag hear Delft Scherpenzeel Weststellingwerf Dokkum Steenwijk hear Jan van der Heyden, De Nieuwezijdsvoorburgwal met de Oude Haarlemmersluis te Amsterdam, ca. 1670 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Amsterdam Mokum * Westerkerk 't IJ Brouwersgracht Gelderse Kade Schreierstoren Zandhoek hear Buitenkant Herengracht Prinsengracht Keizersgracht Dam, Damrak Jordaan hear The Hague Elsewhere Go to Maps Binnenhof Ridderzaal (Knights' Hall) Honselaarsdijk Gevangenpoort Buitenhof hear Pieterskerk (Leiden) Texel (= Tessel) Friesland Kasteel Loevestein Ambon (Indonesia) Batavia (Indonesia) hear Holland, ca. 1650 AD/CE The Dutch East- and West-India Companies De Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie Heren XVII ("Seventeen Gentlemen," the VOC Board) De West-Indische Compagnie Heren XIX ("Nineteen Gentlemen," the WIC Board) hear New Netherland Geography: Towns, Plantations, Rivers etc. Breuckelen Fort Oranje Noten Eiland Otterspoor Pavonia (Lat.) hear 't Strand ('The Beach') Deutel Baai Rensselaerswyck Achter Col Herengracht hear Mey (-> Cape May) Hindeloopen (-> Cape Henlopen) Schuylkill Colen Donck Spuyten Duyvil hear Nooten Eylandt - (old spelling, nuts island, present-day Governors Island) Peter Schaghen - reported sale of Manhattan Island to the Dutch (1626) Konijneneiland - (rabbits' island) -> Coney Island Zwanendaal - the Delaware colony Lange Eylandt Roode Eylandt Haarlem Nassau Vlissingen Heemstede hear Nieuw Amersfoort Huis van De Goede Hoop Huis De Hoop (Huyshope) Middelburg Midwout Vlackebos (Flatbush) hear Beverwijck Nieuw Amstel Willemstad Nieuw Oranje Watervliet Colonie hear Noortwijck Greenwijck (-> Greenwich) hear - 2 Dutch Words vellen (skins) pelterijen marters vossen hear - 2 ships De Halve Maen (Hudson) De Zoutberg Den Eyckenboom hear patroon schout (chief law officer) schepenen (lawmen) geuzen (" beggars") wilden naturellen hoek (corner) hear goddelijk (divine) Heer Jonkheer, Jonker ("squire") landschap (landscape) stilleven (still life) bouwerij ("farm") meester hear burg(h)er baas koe(c)kjes koolsla stadhouder daelder (150¢) rijksdaelder (250¢) hear Names "Rembrandt van Rijn" - Rembrandt Page --- "Johannes Vermeer" - Vermeer Page The names are roughly in the order that they appear in the book, which resulted in some interesting combinations. When looking for a specific name, use your computer or browser's search-in-page function. Fra. - French name; Ger. - German name; Lad. - Ladino (Sephardic) name; Lat. - Latinized name Adriaen van der Donck Gerhard Kremer = Mercator (Lat.) Gemma Frisius (Lat.) Joost de Hondt Peter Plancius (Lat.) hear Emanuel van Meeteren Isaac le Maire (Fra.) Arnout Vogels Sijmen Lambertsz Mau Catalina Trico (Fra.) hear Joris Rapalje (Fra.) Willem Usselincx Claes Peterszen Cornelis Jacobsz Mey Nicolaes van Wassenaer hear - 2 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt Frederik Hendrik Daniel van Crieckenbeeck Willem Verhulst Tymen Bouwensz hear Peter Minuit ... Ridder van Rappard Isaack de Rasière (Fra.) Pieter Schagen (Schaghen) Andries Hudde hear Gerrit Wolphertsen Brant van Slichtenhorst Kiliaen van Rensselaer Jan Lampe Claes Cornelissen Swits 'Rademaker' hear - 2 - 3 Nanne ... Fongersz Piet Heyn * Jan Pieterszoon Coen Johannes Michielse = Jonas Michaelius (Lat.) hear Anthonie van Dyck Albert Joachimi Harmen Myndersz ... Van den Bogaert Jeronimus de la Croix (Fra) hear Willem Thomassen Wouter van Twiller David Pietersz de Vries Willem Blauvelt Tymen Jansen hear Simon Root Pierre Malenfant (Fra.) Paulus Heyman Andries Tummelyn Griet Reyniers hear Pieter de Winter Anthony "de Turk" van Salee (Van Vees) Samuel Blommaert Johan van Beverwyck Adriaen van Bergen hear Gomarus (Lat.) Arminius (Lat.) Simon Episcopius (Lat.) Johannes de Wale Reinier de Graaf hear Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek Hugo de Groot = Grotius (Lat.) Pieter van der Cun = Cunaeus (Lat.) Gillis Verbrugge hear - 2 Seth Verbrugge Dirck de Wolff Govert Loockermans Jacque de Vernuis (Fra.) Hester Simons hear Cornelis Melijn Tonis Jansen Hendrick Jansen Arent Corsen Stam Ghelain Cornelissen hear - 2 Willem Kieft Arent van Curler Jacob van Curler Ulrich Lupoldt (Ger.) Jan Evertsen Bout hear - 2 Willem van Ruytenburch Johannes la Montagne (Fra.) Jacob Waltingen Jacques Bentyn (Fra.) Jan Schepmoes hear Willem Dircksen Willem Holmers Jeuriaen Hendricks Jan Haes Nicolaes Tenner hear Arent van Corlaer 2 - Teuntje Joriaans 2 - Antonia Slaaghboom Harmen van den Bogaert Jan Snediger Sara Rapalje Willem Adriaensen Pierre Pia (Fra) hear Jean St. Germain (Fra.) Cornelis Hooglandt Willem Thomassen Jeremias van Rensselaer Jochem Kuyter (Ger.) hear Jonas Bronck Cornelis van Tienhoven Everardus Bogardus (Lat.) Philip Gerritsen Peter Stuyvesant hear Balthasar Stuyvesant Carel van Brugge Jan Claeszoon van Campen Judith Bayard (Fra.) Anita van Angola hear Cornelis Swits Augustin Herman (Ger.) Erasmus (Lat.) Baruch de Spinoza (Lad.) Hendrick van Dyck hear Jan Evertszoon ... Heindrich (Ger.) David Pietersen Jan Claesen Bol Michael Janszen hear Nicolaes Coorn Hans Vos Jacob van Couwenhoven Philip de Truy (Fra.) Lubbert van Dinklagen hear Arnold van Hardenberg Jacob Loper Annetje van Beyeren Adriaen Pauw Franciscus van den Enden hear Pieter Plockhoy Michiel Stael Hendrik Hondius (Lat.) Johannes Jansson Claes Visscher hear Adriaen Block Johannes Blaeu Agatha, Johanna Agatha van Bergen Cornelis van der Donck hear Alexander van der Cappellen Nicholas Stuyvesant Gysbert op Dyck Willem Frederik Lysbeth Croon hear Johan de Witt Hendrik Cornelisz Broeck Jan Mewesz. Evert Jansz Helena Wand hear Hendrik Claasz. Gommaart Paulusz. Jan Luycken Joost Goderis Gulyan d'Wys hear Allard Anthony Gysbert van der Donck Frederik Flipsen (Philipse) Isaac Bethloo Lysbeth Potters hear Jannetje Wessels Mathias Beck (Ger.) Jacob Barsimon (Lad.) Asser Levy (Lad.) Abraham de Lucena (Lad.) hear Salvador Dandrada (Lad.) Megapolensis (Graecified) Manuel Gerrit Jacob Leisler (Ger) hear - 2 Cornelis Dusart (Fra.) Francis Adriaan van der Kamp A.J.F. van Laer Johannes Dijckman hear Prominent Dutch-American Families Van Buren Roosevelt Vanderbilt hear Dutch Names from Henri van der Zee: Het Edelste Gewest H.J.W. Becht, Amsterdam (1982) out of print New Netherlands Geography New Netherlands Rivers Taverns and Inns Nieuw Amsterdam Nieuw Nederland "Swannekens" (What the native Americans called the Dutch) hear Zuid-Rivier (Delaware) Versche Rivier (Connecticut) Mauritius Rivier hear Drie Kleine Duyfjes (Three Small Pigeons) Het Houten Paard (The Wooden Horse) De Blauwe Druyf (The Blue Grape) hear Various Geographical Fort Nassau Swanenedael Parelstraat Marktveldt hear Brouwerstraat Sint-Nicolaaskerk Waterpoort Landpoort Herenweg hear 's Gravesande (-> Gravesend) Fort Casimir Het Grote Huys Nieuw Urecht hear Brede Straat Walstraat Boswijck Wiltwijck Bergen hear - 2 Stuyvesant in Holland Peperga Berlikum Franeker Alphen aan de Rijn (Amsterdam streets:) Haarlemmerstraat Rapenburg hear Willem van de Velde, The Cannon Shot (ca.1670) Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Dutch Ships That Visited New Amsterdam Het Wapen van Amsterdam Meeuwken Fortuyn captain: Hendrik Christiaansz Tijger captain: Adriaan Block Eendracht hear Sint-Martijn De Eeckhoorn De Haring Het Vliegende Hert De Vrede hear - 2 De Neptuun Blauwe Haen Grote Gerrit De Liefde Prinses hear Nieuw Nederlandse Fortuyn Waterhont Sint-Beninjo Zwoll Coninck Salomon hear Dolfijn Abrahams Offerande Pereboom De Waegh Hollandsche Tuyn hear De Hoop Prins Maurits Geldersche Bloem Beer Vergulde Bever Haen hear Trouw Arent Gideon Het Gekruyste Hart Swaenenburgh hear

Names

Again, as with the names from Mr Shorto's book, the names are roughly in the order I found them in the book.
When looking for a specific name, use your computer or browser's search-in-page function.
Fra. - French name; Ger. - German name; Lat. - Latinized name; Graec. - Graecified name

On his own initiative, against his orders, Cornelis Evertsen 2 - nicknamed "Keesje de Duivel" 2 or "Keesje Duivel" ('Devil') briefly re-captured New York in 1673

... and another chapter of the Dutch in American history:

Dutch Names and Words from Barbara Tuchman: The First Salute Ballantine Books, New York, 1988 November 16, 1776 When Governor de Graaff of the Dutch Carribean colony of St. Eustatius ordered his lieutenant Ravené to return the salute of the U.S. warship Andrew Dorea, it was the first foreign recognition of the new American Flag and Nation.

	Dutch words
Stadhouder (head of state) Staten-Generaal (the Dutch government) Raadspensionaris (the head of the government) Regenten (the ruling class) hear	burgemeester (mayor) schepenen (lawmen) schout (chief law officer) griffier (secretary) hear	Batavi (Lat.) - Batavieren (Germanic tribe) Geuzen (the Dutch revolutionaries) Patriotten (a Dutch party) hear
The stadhouders (singular: (de) stadhouder 2 were the Heads of State of the Dutch Republic from 1568 to 1795, at first direct descendants of The Dutch George Washington Willem van Oranje 2 nicknamed Willem de Zwijger 2 ('William the Silent' - he knew when to keep his mouth shut) an later by more distant relatives. The word (de) stadhouder 2 means 'instead of the king;' (German: 'statt')  - it has nothing to do with the word (de) stad ('city') - which city would he be holding? The family was elevated to royalty only in 1815, after the French occupation. The raadspensionaris 2 was the head of government. Some, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt 2 and Johan de Witt 2 lost their lives in power struggles with the Stadhouder. The Batavians were a Germanic tribe that settled in Holland some 2300 years ago; The Dutch Revolt against Spain was sometimes compared with the Batavian Revolt against Roman rule (69 AD/CE). In 1566, two years before the Dutch Revolt broke out, a group of nobles went to see Spanish governor Margaretha of Parma, asking for tolerance of Protestantism; the Governor was a little afraid of them, but one of her advisors said (in French): "Ils ne sont que des gueux,"  'They're just a bunch of beggars.' When the story became known, the revolutionaries proudly took a Dutchified version, 'Geuzen' 2 as their name. See and hear also The Dutch Anthem and The Dutch Revolt

Sailors and Ships of the 17th Century --- Maps of The Netherlands

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The Diary of Anne Frank
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The Dutch Family -- The Dutch Family Tree
Dutch family names database: Meertens Institute

Everyday Dutch Words Basic vocabulary for conversation and reading
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