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| Manhattan, 1660 by L.F. Tantillo. |
Last year into 2025 marks the 400th anniversary of the founding of the City of New York. My 10th great-grandfather Philippe Du Trieux and his family were among the first settlers of Dutch New Amsterdam, arriving in 1624.
Over the long weekend I finished Russell Shorto's book Taking Manhattan, about the English takeover of New Amsterdam and the formation of New York. I've ordered a copy of his earlier book, The Island at the Center of the World.
There are records from the New Netherland Institute and probably from the Dutch West India Company archives on the Du Trieux family that I may have overlooked when I last researched the family. Part of the month I'll be looking into these records.
