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unusual facts about Dutch colonization of the Americas



Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Peter

After years in work camps to pay back the cost of passage, in a failed attempt by the British to produce naval stores on the lands of the Livingston family in today's Columbia County, some of the Germans settled in today's Rhinebeck, swelling the population of an area lightly settled by the Dutch a few decades before.

New York Court of Common Pleas

Together the Governor, Schout, and Council were supervised by the Dutch colonial authorities at Amsterdam.

St. Nicholas Park

Like the streets on its eastern and western borders, the park was named after St. Nicholas, the patron saint of Amsterdam whose likeness adorned one of the ships that brought the first Dutch settlers to New Amsterdam.


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