Impoverished individuals, including prostitutes, chose not to bow to the dictates of the elite, even though it meant being cut off from the sources of charity. Among those who confronted the elite were descendants of the early Dutch settlers; by clinging to their native language and traditional ...
Who founded Pennsylvania, and where did the Quaker State get its name? While some people associate Pennsylvania with the Revolutionary War, its history goes back far beyond that. In fact, the British weren’t the first to even settle the colony. Dutch settlers were in the area first, and...
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Diedrich Knickerbocker. Irving's book introduced the word Knickerbocker to signify a New Yorker who could trace his or her ancestry to the original Dutch settlers from the 1600s. With the publication of Irving's book, the Dutch Settler Knickerbocker, character became synon...
While food resembling doughnuts has been found at many ancient sites, the earliest origins to the modern doughnuts are generally traced back to the olykoek (“oil(y) cake”)Dutch settlersbrought with them to early New York (or New Amsterdam). ...
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However, Penn's Quaker government was not viewed favorably by the Dutch, Swedish, and English settlers in what is now Delaware. They had no "historical" allegiance to Pennsylvania, so they almost immediately began petitioning for their own assembly. In 1704 they achieved their goal when the ...
Parkside’s long-standing reputation as a politically conservative area predated the carving out of the neighborhood by Frederick Law Olmsted. The Granger Family, the first long-term white settlers in the area, was originally sent here with political patronage jobs from Thomas Jefferson. ...
Before New York City morphed into a modern metropolis it is today, it was knitted together by family farms, many of which were established by descendants of 17th-century Dutch immigrants.Built in the 1780s, the brick, timber, and fieldstone house boasts the low pitched gambrel roof typical of...