[A Dutch flag on the edge of a puddle of water]

[A plate of fava beans, with bacon and potatoes]

meals

food

[small saucepan: lidded pot with a stick handle]

kitchen

bicycles

animals

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Nieuw Nederland: Old New York

Dutch Names in New York

hear: "Peter Stuyvesant" - "Adriaen van der Donk"

Learning Dutch?

Large Map of Dutch Manhattan (with names spoken)

Peter Stuyvesant Peter Minuit (also: Minnewit) Cornelis Steenwijk Adriaen van der Donk Jonas Bronck -> Bronx hear	Nassau Bleecker Beekman Gansevoort Rensselaer Schermerhorn hear - take #2	baas -> boss jonker (squire) -> Yonkers stoep -> stoop koekje -> cookie hear
Haarlem -> Harlem Vlissingen -> Flushing Breukelen -> Brooklyn Staten Land -> Staten Island Kromme Zee -> Gramercy (crooked sea/lake) De Bouwerij -> The Bowery Schuylkill ('hidden(?) river,' in Philadelphia) hear
Flushing was already the English name for the Dutch port Vlissingen. (View map, hear name) The 'Staten' (Estates) were the 17th Century Dutch government. 'Kil' or 'kille' means 'river' or 'canal' (no longer found in modern Dutch.)

New York started out as a Dutch colony. In 1626 Peter Minuit famously bought Manhattan island for something like $20. About two hundred people from Holland were living in the area at that time; Minuit's orders were to build a fort and bring all settlers together around it for (their own) safety. Some New York names are a reminder of the Dutch years.
Nieuw Amsterdam was occupied by the English in 1664 and officially ceded after the Second Anglo-Dutch Sea War (1665-67), in exchange for Surinam (between former British and still French Guyana), which looked more promising at that time.
Imagine (Mr Turtledove?) the American Revolution with a Dutch base in the midst of the twelve colonies; of course Dutch bureaucrats hated revolutionaries as much as their English counterparts, but the powerful merchant class might have seen a profit.
In our world, Holland supported the American Revolution (Barbara Tuchman: The First Salute), smuggling gunpowder and providing loans ... and suffered the Fourth Anglo-Dutch Sea War as a consequence.

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

[thumbnail of and link to a map of Holland in 1650]

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 - hear - (old spelling, nut island, present-day Governors Island)
Peter Schaghen - hear - reported sale of Manhattan Island to the Dutch (1626)

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
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

Robert Juet (Fra.) Adriaan Joris Thienpont Dominee (Reverend) Baudartius Crijn Fredericks François Molemaecker hear	Boudewijn Henricks Nicasius de Sille Jacob Steendam Johannes de Laet Jan van Wieringen hear - 2	Bastiaen Jansz Krol Jacob Eelkens Hans Jorissen van Houten Coenraad van Notelman Jan van Remunde hear
Adam van Roelantsen Cornelis van Vorst Cornelis van der Huygens Jan Jansen van Ilpendam Anneke Jansz hear	Hans Kiestede Jan Damen Philip Geraerdy (Fra.) Cornelis Pietersz Gerrit Jansz van Vorst hear	Marijn Adriaensen Jacob Stangh Petronella Jacob Roy (Fra.) Jacob Tolck hear - 2
Johannes Backerus (Lat.) Paul Leendertsen van der Grift Adriaen Keyser Michiel Jansen Jacob Wolfertsen van Couwenhoven hear	Hendrick Hendricksz Kip Bouwen Krijnsen Isaac Abrahamsen (sic) Elisabeth Jansen Croon Margaret van Eeda hear	Arent van Hattum Martin Cregier (Fra.) Jacob Kip Nicolaes Boot Hans Bontemantel hear
Paulus van der Griffen Laurens de Sille Cornelis van Ruyven Jan Huygens Adrianus Smoutius (Lat.) hear	Machteld Megapolensis (Graec.) Samuel Drisius (Lat.) Johannes Theodorus Polhelmius (Lat.) Johannes Goetwater Jacob Alrich (Ger.) hear - 2	Evert Pietersen Everardus Welius (Lat.) Willem Beeckman Alexander d'Hinoyosa Andries Lourissen hear - 2
Jacob Jansen Stoll Dirck Smit Evert Pels Henricus Selijns Gideon Schaets hear	Margriet Stuyvesant Nicolaes Varleth Jan Pietersen Hendrik Couturier de Jonge (Fra.) Cornelis van Werckhoven hear	Kapitein (Captain) Lodewijk Post Hillegonde Joris Jacobus Varevanger Claes van Elslandt Stoffel Michielsen hear
Evert Duycking Johannes Nevius (Lat.) Matthieu de Vos Pieter Tonneman Geurt Coerten hear - 2	Hilletje Jans Christiaen Anthony Hendrik Janzen Sluyter Annetje Bogardus (Lat.) Claes Jansen de Ruyter hear	Michiel Taden Solomon la Chair (Fra.) Ytie Jansen Geesje Jansen Liesbeth Antonissen hear
Manuel 'de Reus' Gerritsen ('the Giant') Jan Quisthout van der Linden Hendrick Harmsen Anthony Baeck Pieter Schaefbank hear	Sarah de Rosschou (Fra.) Aryan Wouterse Catalijntje Walburga de Sille Machteld Specht hear	Aegidius Luyck Judith van Isendooren Arent Roelantsen Jan Stevense Pieter van der Linde hear
Harmen van Hoboken David Provost Alexander Carolus Curtius (Lat.) Gerrit van Sweeringen Hermanus Blom hear - 2	Lichten Derricks Matthijs Capito Jan Albertsen Willem Haps Marten Harmensen hear	Christiaen Niessen Gijsbert van Imborgh Jan Hendricksen Johannes van Brugh Oloff Stevensen van Cortlandt hear
Johannes de Deckel .. Cousseau Michiel de Ruyter .. Van Gogh Cornelis Evertsen de Jonge hear - 2	Jacob Binckes Anthony Colve Caspar Fagel hear - 2

'... And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes - a fresh, green breast of the new world. Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.'

F Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1926) Penguin Books

... 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.

St. Eustatius Historical Figures	Dutch Colonies in The New World
Johannes de Graaff Abraham Ravené Abraham Heyliger Jan de Windt Isaac van Dam hear - 2	Sint Eustatius "Statia" Sint Maarten Curaçao Suriname hear
Historical Figures in Holland at The Time of The American Revolution
Pieter van Bleiswijk (Head of Country Government) Lodewijk van Brunswijk (Advisor to the Head of State) Engelbert François van Berckel (Head of Amsterdam Government) Herman Colenbrander (19^th Century historian) Johan Derck van der Capellen tot den Pol (reformer) Lodewijk van Bylandt (admiral) hear

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 Stadhouder was the Head of State, 'instead of the king;' the post was first held by William of Orange, leader of The Dutch Revolt, later by his sons and descendants, and by more distant relatives when his line died out; the family was elevated to royalty only in 1815. The Raadspensionaris was the head of government. Some (Oldenbarnevelt, De Witt) 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" as their name.

Groningen
Friesland
Overijssel
Gelderland
hear

The Seven Provinces of The Dutch Republic
	Utrecht Holland Zeeland hear		At present, Holland has 12 provinces. In the 17th Century, poor and sparsely populated Drenthe was a kind of territory, and the Catholic southern provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg were also like territories (some say 'internal colonies') governed from Holland. The twelfth province Flevoland, on the newly reclaimed land in the old Zuyder Zee, was added in the 1970s.

Zuyderzee
Maas (Meuse, river)
Schelde (river)
Texel (island)
hear

Miscellaneous	Dutch Towns
Zaandam Groningen Den Briel Leiden Antwerpen (now in Belgium) hear	Utrecht Rotterdam Brussel (now in Belgium) Den Haag Zutphen hear	Amsterdam Münster (Germany) Haarlem Dordrecht hear

Historical Figures of The Dutch Revolt (1568-1648) and Golden Age (1600-1700)
Lodewijk van Nassau Willem van Oranje (The Dutch George Washington) = Willem de Zwijger Balthasar Gerards (his assassin) hear	Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (admiral) Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (admiral) Johan de Witt (government leader) Cornelis de Witt (government leader) Anthonie van Leeuwenhoek (invented the microscope) hear
Painters of the Dutch Golden Age
Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn Johannes Vermeer Frans Hals Anthonie van Dyck Jan Steen hear	Gerrit Ter Borch Pieter de Hoogh Salomon van Ruysdael Meindert Hobbema hear

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

More Dutch Names --- Vermeer's World --- Rembrandt
The Diary of Anne Frank
NEW: Dutch Names from Books
NEW: Maps and Names from Operation Market Garden ('The Bridge too Far')
The Dutch Family

Everyday Dutch Words Basic vocabulary for conversation and reading
Useful Words and Phrases for Travelers
NEW Learning Dutch? (Lessons - Suggested Method)
Hear Longer Dutch Texts: Poems and a Song - Short Stories

On Pronouncing Dutch --- Exercise
English, Dutch and German Words from A Common Root --- Hebrew Words in Dutch
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