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named after the city of Utrecht, Netherlands; and Bushwick:
chartered as
Boswijck in 1661. The colony's
capital of New Amsterdam,
across the East River,...
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Island settlements including New
Utrecht and Gravesend. In 1660 he
founded Boswijck (now
known as Bushwick),
along with twenty-three
other settlers, including...
- Bedford–Stuyvesant to the southwest. The town was
first founded by the
Dutch as
Boswijck during the
Dutch colonization of the
Americas in the 17th century. In the...
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Peter Stuyvesant chartered present-day
Bushwick in 1661
under the name
Boswijck,
meaning "neighborhood in the woods" in 17th-century Dutch.: 171 Likewise...
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Americans who
occupied the area. In 1661, the
company chartered the Town of
Boswijck,
including land that
would later become Williamsburg.
After the English...
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purchase by
English settlers Oude
Dorpe Old Town,
Staten Island NY 1661
Boswijck Bushwick,
Brooklyn NY 1661
Schenectady Schenectady NY 1661
Claverack Hudson...
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Hempstead Convention of 1665.[citation needed]
Rapelje died in 1685 in
Boswijck, a
village that
became the
modern Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn. By...
- town of
Brooklyn became a city in 1834. Town of
Bushwick -
founded as "
Boswijck" in 1661,
annexed to
Brooklyn in 1854 Town of
Flatbush -
founded as "Midwout"...
- Brooklyn. The last of the six
Dutch towns of
Brooklyn settled in 1661 as
Boswijck, in
essence "little town in the woods,"
though a
literal translation would...
- to the east of Williamsburg. The town, in turn, was
named for the
Dutch Boswijck,
which translated to "little town in the woods" or "heavy woods". The first...
