when you watch this vid and the first thing you see is a heineken truck driving by

@corkcamden9878

7 жыл бұрын

That's rich!

@tuigopfiets

7 жыл бұрын

You are sharp

@michielovereem

7 жыл бұрын

awesome! :)

@Bruce-1956

7 жыл бұрын

toevallig...............

@Bojanglesz89

6 жыл бұрын

Lol

We are very aware of our Dutch heritage here in West Michigan. There is even a Dutch section at our local supermarket chain Meijer. What would I do without Stroopwafels?

@cantankerouspatriarch4981

7 жыл бұрын

lehmanpolarbear70, one's life might end.

@ZaligeBite

6 жыл бұрын

lehmanpolarbear70 without stroopwafels you cant live

@milaroos

6 жыл бұрын

What about Hagelslag?

@nvtnvt9617

6 жыл бұрын

Please ask if they can order Venco Droptoefjes voor you ( sweet drop ) :) you are going to like that. Also Unox rookworst DO IT DO IT

@JohnnyK60

5 жыл бұрын

Dutch people from Michigan are completely different than New Amsterdam descendants.

Harlem = Haarlem. Brooklyn = Breukelen. Flushing = Vlissingen. broadstreet = breede straat. Wallstreet = walstraat. Rhode island = rood eiland.

@BarrelsMeloen

9 жыл бұрын

nando van werkhoven Brooklyn = Breuklijn

@darkenrahl2007

9 жыл бұрын

BarrelsMeloen breukelen.... de breuklijn ligt in het westen van de US , niet in het oosten waar NY ligt en in de tijd waarin de steden genaamd werden was er nog niet eens de kennis dat een breuklijn bestond ;p

@Debbie321lopez

9 жыл бұрын

nando van werkhoven Was het niet Waal straat?

@nandovanwerkhoven8171

9 жыл бұрын

Debbie321lopez ik weet het niet voor 100% zeker maar ik dacht toch echt dat het "walstraat" was want die hadden/hebben we in Nederland ook ("de wallen" in Amsterdam) en hier in Nijmegen hebben we er zelfs 3. (eerste walstraat, tweede walstraat, derde walstraat) maar ja, we hebben hier in Nijmegen ook een waalstraat, dus misschien heb jij wel gelijk. ik ga dit toch nog maar even goed uitzoeken

@VeniVidiAjax

9 жыл бұрын

+BarrelsMeloen Brooklyn komt toch echt van Breukelen hoor.

Yankees is also derived from the dutch names Jan en Kees.

@vafc613

7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Scholte but are those names really coming from the dutch? because almost all european names have an equivalent with just an other spelling in other parts of europe. do you have any sources?

@vafc613

7 жыл бұрын

Alexander Scholte je had ook gewoon niet kunnen reageren dan had je ook geen last gehad van mensen als mij. fijne dag verder.

@bertg5294

5 жыл бұрын

jan-kees. one name

@MonkPetite

5 жыл бұрын

Dollar was daalder. But the British did pronounced it wrong and daalder slowly changed to dalder..Dolder dollar.

@MonkPetite

5 жыл бұрын

OK (okay) it from a ducht president how signed off paperwork with I believe his Dutch home town initials

A lot of Americans think of The Netherlands only as a small country. They have NO idea what influence the Netherlands had in the past on their country but also in the rest of the world. Still loads of daily used inventions come from the Netherlands like CD, DVD, bluetooth, etc.

@tuigopfiets

7 жыл бұрын

Netherlands was the world power back in the old days, weird if we look now we are a really small country but a rich history.

@tuigopfiets

7 жыл бұрын

Ik weet t lol

@Linda-hs1lk

7 жыл бұрын

***** Nou, niet echt, maar goed genoeg. Behalve dan dat Balgium...

@joycegreer9391

7 жыл бұрын

I knew the Dutch roots of NY, the world colonies & naval power from the past. I know the electronics company, Philips, is Dutch.

@joycegreer9391

7 жыл бұрын

Joni Yeah, you look like you would know about that.

I just ordered his book and will go on his tours. ..I have been living in New York for sixty years coming this July 5th, when I landed here from Cuba at the age of three with my mother and father in hand. I am now digging deeper into its fascinating history than ever before!

Even growing up in North Dakota and attending elementary school in the 1950's, I was taught in US History about the Dutch founding New Amsterdam. I think it is only in the last generations that children are not being taught about anything in the schools. My 30 year old nieces and nephews don't even know what even is recorded as starting World War One. Shocking. Maybe the schools need to go back to the history books that I was taught from in the 1950's and 1960`s.

3 members of my family were owners of the New Netherlands Trading Company. Captain Elkins was the first captain to request charter to come to America , they planned to land on Manhattan Island. The cargo was a Dutch Protestant congregation who hired him to take them to new netherlands , the charter was denied the Dutch government wouldn't allow it so they got a charter from England. There was an Elkins aboard one if the ships who sailed with the Mayflower he was carrying 75lbs of silver and everyone else aboard was a knight or noble class.

My 7th Great Grandfather was Tomys Swartwout. He was one of the very first Dutch to settle here, and one of four or five men who traded North American Tabaco in the Netherlands. Three of them, settled on what is now Flatbush, and my ancestor named the neiborhood of Midwout, he was also named magistrate of this area. He died in Ulster Co., NY in 1660. The sad part is, I've never heard anything about him and his family in any of these videos.

@DailyTheme

Жыл бұрын

Yes flatlands was owned by my grandfather wolphert g van couwenhoven, Rensselaer was his partner but absent from being here Wolphert is the 1st known settled and bought Brooklyn from Indians The English renamed it to flatlands and his farm house was on the intersection of Bushwick and kings hywy

@DailyTheme

Жыл бұрын

He came under contract with DWIC as endentured to manage the clearance of Manhattan Island for 1/10 of its farming profits Then went on to management for Rensselaer up the Hudson and Albany while farming his land of Brooklyn and selling lands thereon to colonize some

@DailyTheme

Жыл бұрын

Him and his 3 sons, (I'm through Jacob's line) we're all in the new amsterdam government

@DailyTheme

Жыл бұрын

My grandfather Alexander came from England and married right into Dutch heritage So I'm like 11th or 12th generation great grandson of wolphert g van couwenhoven Which is from couwenhoven Netherlands 🇳🇱 next to Amersfoort Netherlands And part of NYC was called Amersfoort

@DailyTheme

Жыл бұрын

Alexander married my grandmother Amanda Through her I'm Dutch too

I met a couple of New Yorkers who were born and raised there and their surnames are Dutch! And they were well aware of their Dutch heritage too.

If you grew up in New York State in the 50s-70s, and you were paying attention, you know about the Dutch in America--it was taught extensively in public schools in 4th AND 7th grade. Probably still is. I just love these "forgotten" or "neglected" history bits--in truth, it's that Americans are ignorant and don't remember even what they did study in school.

@edwardcumpstey9061

6 жыл бұрын

In truth, speaking on behalf of the Americans who did pay attention, I could assure you that some of us do remember what we were taught. Also, we are not all ignorant. You should be the one to stop being ignorant and stereotypical.

@LemystereManCarloc

5 жыл бұрын

Even 15 years ago we were extensively taught the history. People just don’t remember.

@bigred9428

2 ай бұрын

All these videos worded this way are designed to make us watch and comment, eg., "10 Things You Never Knew About Brushing Your Teeth", or, "You're Brushing Your Teeth All Wrong!" More views and comments, more money.

First thing I noticed: They still drink Dutch beer in New York! :-D

Paulus was skipper of the ship "Neptune" in 1645, and of the "Grest Gerrit" in 1646. He was a large landholder in New Amsterdam as early as 1644. He was a member of the council, 1647-1648; burgomaster 1657-1658, and 1661-1664; orphan master 1656-1660; member of convention, 1653 and 1663. On February 21, 1664, Paulus LEENDERSEN and Allard ANTHONY were spoken of as "co-patroons of the new settlement of Noortwyck on the North Rover.

I am a Dutch American. 1640.

the best thing about this video is that there is a heineke truck driving in the back for the first 2 seconds

Great having the "Heineken" truck driving by right at the start. Timing is priceless.

thank you for this series. as a direct descendant of Jan Bastiansen Van Kortryk who arrived in the early 1600 from Holland, I learned quite a bit.

@a.zeu1TV

5 жыл бұрын

Shelah Johnson yet your last name is Johnson

@ameliar6374

5 жыл бұрын

A VB Content could have been adopted🤷‍♀️

@Vicente_Walbaum

4 жыл бұрын

@@a.zeu1TV For example, my descendent is Francisco Pizarro. He has a girl. Now the girl's first surname is Pizarro. Then when she has a son or daughter he or she will have Pizarro as his or her last surname. The next generation won't have the Pizarro surname. Think a little bit.

@Vicente_Walbaum

4 жыл бұрын

@@ameliar6374 For example, my descendent is Francisco Pizarro. He has a girl. Now the girl's first surname is Pizarro. Then when she has a son or daughter he or she will have Pizarro as his or her last surname. The next generation won't have the Pizarro surname. Think a little bit.

I'm familiar with this part of American history, but then I'm a direct product of it. We Van Zandts are descended from Christoffel "Stoffel" Harmensen, an East Frisian cloth shearer who arrived in New Amsterdam in 1651. After the generic Dutch, the Frisians in their three varieties (West, East and North) were the most prominent ethnic group in New Netherland. Stuyvesant himself was a West Frisian. After Stoffel was killed in the Peach Tree War, New Amsterdam put his orphan son, Gerrit Stoffelse, in the care of Johannes Nevius and Jacques Cortelyou, who saw to it that the young fellow received a legal education. We continued with the Frisian patronyms until Gerrit sold his land on Long Island and left for Bucks County, PA. It's there that we adopted Van Zandt as permanent surname and a lasting memory of Stoffel's origins on the East Frisian Peninsula.

@NewNetherlandNow

8 жыл бұрын

+Troy Van Zandt Thanks for sharing Troy. May I ask where the family spread to? Is there still a hot spot of Van Zandt's around Bucks County? (It is of course a relatively common name in the Netherlands, although with different spellings)

@TroyDowVanZandt

8 жыл бұрын

+New Netherland Now I don't think there are any Van Zandts living in Bucks County nowadays. The woman who runs the Van Zandt Society, Laurie Van Sant, lives not far away in New Jersey. Traces of the early Van Zandts remain, however. In Bensalem Township stands a church (heavily remodeled through the years) that my family built in the early 1700s (www.bensalempresbyterianchurch.org/). It was, of course, Dutch Reformed at its establishment. My ancestor Jacobus van Zandt's house still stands as well (facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.486248281401033.127924.245971808762016&type=1). As for the name, why Van Zandt? A family called the Kinions have Christoffel Harmensen as an ancestor, and they accessed the Amsterdam archives. In a marriage declaration made in the 1640s, Christoffel stated he was born in Kleverens bij Jever. Having lived in Germany, I am quite familiar with its highly ethnocentric Frisian minority. Kleverens (modernly Cleverns) is in the Jeverland on the East Frisian Peninsula. Immediately south and east of Cleverns is a village called Sande, and I suspect Christoffel was living in Sande before his move to Amsterdam--a move still in my family's memory in the 1690s when they decided on van Zandt. So why move to Amsterdam? Frisia as a political entity died a definitive death in the early 1500s, after a century of civil war in the 1400s. As the Frisians abandoned their representative democracy in the late 1300s, they polarized into two political parties: the Skieringers and the Fetkeapers (Fat Buyers). The polarization represents two competing economic models and world views, the former rural and conservatively dedicated to maintaining the inward-looking status quo, the latter urban and more willing to deal with the outside feudal world. The violence was so bad that the feudal forces that had tried to conquer Frisia over the centuries watched on the sidelines until invited by the Skieringers to intervene on their behalf in the early 1500s. The Cirksenas from Greetsiel on the East Frisian Peninsula drove final nail in the coffin of Frisian unity when they tried to consolidate the old Frisian go's under their control. The last Frisian-speaking pastor in the the Jeverland died in the 1560s. Christoffel's grandparents were probably the last generation to speak Old Frisian at home. Low Saxon in one form or another began to be spoken across the East Frisian Peninsula. (Interestingly, East Frisian Low Saxon retains many Old Frisian words that modern Frisian in the Netherlands has lost due to pressure from Standard Dutch.) Speaking a variety of Low Saxon most likely made Christoffel's move to Amsterdam linguistically easy. Standard Dutch is a form of Low Saxon. Dutch was also the language spoken in Lutheran churches across the East Frisian Peninsula. I suspect the Dutch Republic was an attractive destination for a young tradesman like Stoffel. The Thirty Years War was raging in the 1630s. The dissolution of Frisian unity also brought an end to a formidable military might based on well defined borough duties at the local level. Stoffel wisely left the Jeverland for the security of the Dutch Republic. So why New Amsterdam? This question is a bit harder to answer. I suspect freedom, opportunity and adventure played major roles in the decision. Stoffel signed a contract in Amsterdam with an Abraham de Wijs to work as a cloth shearer for Cornelis de Potter in New Amsterdam. Stoffel must have liked the place: He stayed in New Netherlands after his contractual obligation ended. Ironically, the troubles of the Old World became Stoffel's undoing in the New. While Stuyvesant was away attacking New Sweden in September of 1655, the Swede's allies, the Susquehannocks, attacked New Netherlands. Christoffel Harmensen died in the turmoil. You are correct when it comes to the ignorance we have regarding this country's Dutch past. Unlike many Van Zandts, my branch has retained the original 17th-century Dutch spelling. The -dt represents a devoicing of voiced final consonants in Standard Dutch that took place I believe in the late 1500s. The retention of the D is a form of deference to the old phonology. Having a Dutch toponym in modern American is a constant source of exasperation. "There you go, Mr. Zandt." Worse yet is the utter incomprehension of the -dt. "Nice to meet you, Mr. Van Zandit." (Do you say "Rembrandit?") My family left Bucks County at least two decades before the Revolution for the Carolinas. Two cousins seem to have made the trip together, sons of Jacobus and Albertus van Zandt, and grandsons of Gerrit Stoffelse van Zandt. The names at this point show a shift to the colonial mainstream. Jacobus's son was named Isaiah. His son, Isaiah Van Zandt, Jr., owned an arms factory in North Carolina and was under contract to supply muskets and rifles to the nascent state during the Revolutionary War. The younger Isaiah was also the grandfather, by his first marriage, of the abolitionist John Van Zandt of Jones v. Van Zandt fame. Interestingly, the story of our journey has been passed down accurately from father to son for over three centuries: from the Netherlands, then New York and Pennsylvania, then to the Carolinas, then to Tennessee, and then further west. We never forgot who we were.

@jermaine1998

8 жыл бұрын

+Troy Van Zandt please do tell me you say it as van zand as dutch, and not like ven zend

@TroyDowVanZandt

8 жыл бұрын

Actually, we use a very American pronunciation: /vaen zaent/. I would imagine we stopped using the Dutch pronunciation when we stopped speaking Dutch. That break probably occurred in the early 1700s when the given names shifted from Dutch to the typically colonial: Jacobus to Isaiah. When asked whether he knew my father, someone once replied, "I don't know Kenny Van, let alone his aunt!"

@jermaine1998

8 жыл бұрын

Troy Van Zandt sorry, the american pronounciation of van makes me cringe

Very interesting. Knew some of this, not all. There are also Frisians & Dutch in the Midwest. Michigan is the only state with tulips as a major agricultural product because of the Dutch.

His "Island...World" book is one I keep reading over & over. One of the best books I have ever come across in any genre. A genius of storytelling and American history. The book should be manditory reading in our schools, but sadly the reading levels of many HS graduates is insufficient to go beyond the book's title!

62 y.o., born, raised, educated, and still live in Breuckelen (even went to Erasmus Hall H.S. in Vlattebos). Perhaps it's generational but in school we did learn of our Dutch heritage---all the way from New Netherlands to Beverwyck (Albany). Is this still taught? I think the Dutch had an influence on us here which is why we're somewhat different from the rest of the US.

@billieboybuddha4238

2 жыл бұрын

Spread the word Steven!

I was a New Yorker, and a historian, yet knew so little of Dutch influence on New York till I've read Shorto's book a few times. It is an amazing read .

@jermaine1998

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Charron there isn't any influence, you got rotten by england, sorry but NY people = rude AF

@zascreamer100

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for such an intelligent response.

@joycegreer9391

7 жыл бұрын

+Mike Charron I knew about New Amsterdam and certain people like Stuyvesant, but not everything else. I knew more about Dutch in MI, WI, IA.

@bentleyr00d

7 жыл бұрын

Jebellish Go to hell, we New Yorkers aren't rude at all, jackass! But seriously, I don't find New Yorkers particularly rude, only brusque. Pull out a map on any street corner and at least a dozen New Yorkers will rush over and ask if they can help you find something. Go to a concert in the park or visit a museum, and some New Yorker will inevitably strike up a friendly conversation Bostonians are rude.

@joycegreer9391

7 жыл бұрын

bentleyr00d Good to know. Maybe I will get to NYC sometime, always wanted to, but it's a bit intimidating. I grew up rural WI, but I have been to Chicago and Los Angeles and did okay.

did you ever heard of Peter Stuyvesant? he was a Dutch governor of New Amsterdam (New York)

@NewNetherlandNow

8 жыл бұрын

+nando van werkhoven Yes, I do! He features in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dad50diAcqmnpKQ.html

@PerthTowne

7 жыл бұрын

He's well-known to anyone who knows New York City's history. There are quite a few things named after him, including a neighborhood in Brooklyn called Bedford-Stuyvesant, as well as one of New York City's most prestigious high schools.

@joycegreer9391

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, I knew that about Stuyvesant. +nando van werkhoven and PerthTowne

@j.denino5732

6 жыл бұрын

My uncle went to Stuyvesant High School in the late 1930s and early 1940s but dropped out to fight in WWII.

@Rainb0wzNstuff

5 жыл бұрын

Bedford stuyvesant ?

I know it. I love it. I think it is very important to know, being someone who has been born and raised in New York.

A huge population of Dutch settlers actually went to new your from a brazilian city now called recife. When they took over the settlement from the Portuguese, the city was even called mauristad for a brief period. The portuguese Royal family, however, took it back, and that was when most of the dutch settlers fled

I'm dutch, and I never heard of Nieuw Nederland until today. We all learn about New Amsterdam and Suriname, but obviously there's much more to it. I love to see all the vids about this topic, thanks!

This is good, concise history. Just right for this format.

Thank you for writing your book, and this video as well. When I learned that my 9th Great Grandparents were Anneke Jans Bogardus and Everardus Bogardus, your book was the first thing I read.

Thank you for clearing up many points.

Americans who grew up in New York State know their Dutch heritage. Just look at all the place names.

@acchaladka

5 жыл бұрын

Well yes and no. I’m from Tarrytown and went to the local Dutch Reformed Church by the Tappan Zee bridge, before going to visit friends who lived in a project called Van Tassel Manor...and I didn’t know a lot of this detail. To think, if only the Dutch had managed to beat the English, what a different United States it would be. No Revolutionary War for example, or not the same. There’s much to admire about modern 🇳🇱; I wonder how owning a big part of the US would have changed the home country over the centuries.

@ApatLang

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe it would have been a more peaceful revolution but America would probably be less populated if the Dutch kept their colonies. They mainly used it for trade while lots of English, Irish, Scots etc actually immigrated. Who knows

@01ruudjemulder

5 жыл бұрын

@@acchaladka I agree

@joffryvangrondelle

4 жыл бұрын

@@acchaladka Great questions indeed ;)

@Blaqjaqshellaq

4 жыл бұрын

Many words in American English come from Dutch, including poppycock (Dutch for "soft sh**"), spook and trek.

And on a lovely Sunday afternoon you can take a horse & buggy ride and visit De Bronks.

He speaks (rightly, of course) about the blind spot in American History that overlooks New Netherland and New Amsterdam. But without criticism, I'd like to add that the blind spot, even the blind spot of this view, overlooks what is now call Jersey City. Until the arrogant NY/NJ Port Authority changed it to bland "Newport". the closest stop to Manhattan on on the PATH subway was the lovely name "Pavonia." That was the initial Dutch name for the area along the west bank of the Hudson River. That name now survives only as the name of a street that runs from the water front up to the Bergen Hill area. The area on high ground called the Palisades, now known locally as Bergen Hill (after a Dutch town) and the street names around that areas are all, almost without exception, are named after the Dutch farmers who founded the village of Bergen in 1635. The headstones in the nearby cemetery are virtually all Dutch (Sip, Van Reipen, Tonnele, Pavonia, etc) . Bergen Square (corner of Bergen Ave and Academy St) includes the site of the oldest continuously operation public school in North America. The building itself has been replaced frequently and is now the MLK Public School. The word "Academy" is the Dutch word for school. On May 18th, 2019, local members of the The Bergen Square Association will be celebrating that history with a festival from 1pm to 6pm. The streets around will be closed to vehicular traffic throughout the villages original compound. It is a very short walk from the JSQ PATH Station. The festival will be open to the public and free of charge.

@Blaqjaqshellaq

4 жыл бұрын

Does the name Bergen come from the Dutch for "hills"? (At least, that's the German word for it.)

@JoeHarkinsHimself

4 жыл бұрын

@@Blaqjaqshellaq According to sources, Bergen was chosen as the name of the settlement based on the town of the same name in the Netherlands. Yes, the word "bergen" does mean mountains in German (and perhaps in Dutch), but these highlands are not even 200 feet higher than the floodplains either east or west of the rock spine that rises in Jersey City and is known further north as the geological formation, The Palisades. They are definitely not mountains. However. it is also true that most of the streets in the area of the original Bergen settlement, other than those named after early settlers, are geographic. There is Summit, Highland, Palisades, Belmont, Fairmount, and more - but you will notice none are of Dutch or Germanic origin.

I'm so glad there's a channel like this. My 9th great grandfather was Joris Rapalje, so this is a nice look back at part of my family history.

Coney Island schijnt van Konijnen eiland te stammen.

In the seal/flag of Brooklyn is still a dutch sentence: Eendraght mackt maght. In the New York seal stands the year 1625, the year the Dutch found New Amsterdam.

Pierre Minuit In 1626, Pierre Minuit, governor of New-Belgium, became famous by the purchase of Manhattan Island. He bought it from the Manhattes Indians in exchange for glittering beads and other trinkets. The total value was about sixty guilders or $ 24.

@EarthScienceEnjoyer

6 жыл бұрын

BelgianWaffle Airsoft belgium disnt even excist yet then what are you talking about. Pretty sure we were still together with the netherlands then

if we didn`t lose from England you could still smoke weed in New Amsterdam

@Futuart

7 жыл бұрын

Jesper Andresen we traded New Amsterdam for Suriname, because slavery was more profitable than New Amsterdam :)

@ronaldderooij1774

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, but not because we had a choice. The English were very persuasive with 6 armed ships agains 0. We were Lucky that the English wanted to trade Suriname at all. They might as well had occupied New Amsterdam outright.

@blauwekrijger

7 жыл бұрын

Ronald de Rooij Nope we destroyed the English fleet at that period

@vruscryaotic1830

5 жыл бұрын

Ronald de Rooij from the first to the third dutch-anglo war the Dutch dominated the English, the let's say "trade" happened during those wars, the English had taken New Amsterdam without a declaration of war (typical English) and the dutch would go on to take over Suriname and i believe a few other places. Then when peace was discussed about in the "Vrede van Breda" the dutch simply kept Suriname and the English kept New Amsterdam

@baukebaljeu8636

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure if that would have improved NYC life..

+Geweldig, keep up the gooodwork.! thnx

I got interested in the history of New York after reading Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” in which he describes a village established by the Dutch and mentions Peter Stuyvesant. I am an English teacher in Brazil and I started a research on Peter Stuyvesant. He lived in Brazil for 10 years during the time the Dutch were colonizing Northeastern Brazil. He lost his right leg because of a cannonball while fighting the Englishmen in Curacao. Then he went to Holland to recover. After that he was sent to be the Governor of New Netherland by the Dutch West India Company.

I hope you still have plans for this channel! Mr. Shorto is correct....victors write history & the English wiped out the Dutch in New Netherlands until relatively recently. I was born in NYC, although raised in Florida, and have always adored the city & it's history.

@thomasboon4822

8 жыл бұрын

+TheKelJacob The Dutch actually traded New Amsterdam for Suriname in some sort way, they both conquered the territories and considered it a trade after peace came.

@thomasboon4822

8 жыл бұрын

JustDSBM lol we didn't take any land from any indian tribe and the Dutch don't celebrate Thanksgiving. We bought New york and Staten Island from the indians. Get your facts straight.

@robertcuminale1212

8 жыл бұрын

And we bought New Jersey from the Leni Lenape. There's a deed filed in Trenton that shows my ancestor David de Marest buying it and how much he paid for it. The Dutch worked very hard to remain friendly with the natives because it was good for business. We are considered by many to be very good at business.

Heel interessant!

Coastal New Jersey and on both sides of the Hudson river to the Albany, NY (Fort Orange) area were influenced by the Dutch. The Catskill (Cat's Creek) mountain chain is located from the southern border to NY state to Albany. Henry Hudson himself was hired by the Dutch East India Company to find a northwest passage to Cathay (China).

English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain in the fifth to seventh centuries by Germanic invaders and settlers from what is now northwest Germany and the Netherlands.

@theon9575

3 жыл бұрын

..... en?

Nice video. I think many countries forget certain periods in their history, like America with their Wijckoff's, and The Netherlands with their Martin's (Maarten) (Spanish period) Just as many Dutch don't know their Spanish connection.

Notice also near Wall Street: Orange Street (after NL Royal family House of Orange), there's a windmill depicted nearby too

@corettaha7855

5 жыл бұрын

Rianne C ten Veen because we know our Dutch heritage perfectly well. The video lies.

Hello Russell, do uou still organise tours about old Dutch places ?

I’m surprised that we are considered not to know and celebrate our Dutch heritage. It’s taught in schools for one thing, and it’s all over culture from knickerbockers to Washington Irving. We definitely see our national identity as originating in the English and native Americans (pocahantas is the mother of our nation after all). But we still know the Dutch and Spanish and french and Portuguese happened at least. I’m glad this is being kept alive for people to think about. It is more informative to me to think about these relationships as an adult with an understanding of the world than it was to learn it as a 4th grader who had no clue.

Question: How did the England get New Holland in 1667/ now New York in North America? Answer: The Peace of Breda, signed on July 31, 1667 in the Great Hall of the Castle in the Brabant town of Breda, was the treaty between the Dutch Republic, England, France and Denmark, which the Second Anglo-Dutch War ended. That's the way The Repubiek of the Seven United Netherlands get the colony of Suriname in South America and England get New Amsterdam / New Holland North America, now New York

@bentleyr00d

7 жыл бұрын

Actually they just sailed some warships into New York harbor and announced that the colony was theirs. Governor Stuyvesant tried to rouse citizens to fight the British, but nobody was willing to, realizing they couldn't win anyway. They say the English officer in charge offered to give free passage back to Holland to any colonist who wanted it, but not a single person took him up on it.

Heineken truck was the first i saw in this video, that says it all

Most Americans I met perfectly knew the Dutch influence on their history (but then again, they had university education).

@corettaha7855

5 жыл бұрын

Ronald de Rooij we learn it beginning in grade school. Everyone knows it across both continents in our hemisphere. It’s not your imagination. They’re lying about it being left out. It’s not as important because we revolted against the English, not the Dutch.

lol nice music from 'a glorious dawn' from melodysheep :D

@mysteryshrimp

8 жыл бұрын

I was hoping that I wasn't the first to immediately make that connection. Fitting in more ways than one, too. If you wish to make the Big Apple from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

I am so happy to say I bought Russell Shorto’s book!

As a native NYC boy, now 66, I remember learning quite a lot of early Dutch NYC history in public school. We read books and sang songs about it too. The Museum Of the City of NYC had (or maybe still does I'm not sure) a wonderful miniature model of old Nieuw Amsterdam.

How ironic for the video to begin with a Heineken truck in the background. We’ve secretly been colonizing New York again with our beer, but sssh don’t tell anyone.

...so basically we're all somehow related, connected. Shout out to our overseas sisters and brothers!

My relatives came to New Amsterdam in the 1640s from the Netherlands. I love to hear about the history of American.

We do know this shit ... They teach us in primary school .. I live in New York so i.guess maybe thats why .. They had colony here and some slaves .. But it was more freedom than the british .. There was alot more mingling of groups .. There is a group of people called the mulungeons who are descended from native American, african , and dutch who mixed during this period ... They live in the south

@corettaha7855

5 жыл бұрын

Bianca Britt thank you! I said the same thing, and I grew up in Texas. I guess I do give primacy to the English, but only because that’s who we revolted against to become the United States. And even the Dutch speak mainly English lol.

Proud to be Dutch.

@r1karma595

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyle H erm are you for real or ya momma n pappa drop you on ya head a few times ok history lesson dumbfuck britian WON the battle of Britain and NO we didnt have more troops you dumb uneducated FUCK 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@r1karma595

8 жыл бұрын

+Kyle H truce with the soviets OMG HEY YOUR COMMENTS ARE GOING ALL OVER FB,TWITTER I REALLY FOUND A COMPLETE DUMBASS listen little boy heres what happend germany invaded belguim,holland,france then invaded russia then the russians and the weather systems completly destroyed the eastern front then Britain america invaded europe and with us like the russians we drove to berlin no truce you silly fuck unconditional surrender WOW COME ON POST SOME MORE 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@r1karma595

8 жыл бұрын

+Bjorn Gerrist who helped you when the whole of holland surrended to hitler?? who had the worlds biggest empire?? answer is the BRITISH 😉 want more or??

@r1karma595

8 жыл бұрын

+Bjorn Gerrist first of all the video uploader trying to uphold the dutch when it was english and irish who made america secondly im half irish mate so cant tell me shit thirdly iant no kid and iant got a big mouth, so try n man up to me with ya silly bullshit learn ya history 3 yrs Britain fought hitler battle of Britain abiet some foreign pilots so dont you dare takeaway Britain as only having us helping we kicked rommel out of north africa alone were the ancestors of americans being english n irish im double patriotic i dont hold back or mince words i say what i think n judge by what i see now you can cry all ya want the dutch dont rule we do

@r1karma595

8 жыл бұрын

+Bjorn Gerrist holland betrayed the women n children and let the nazis in without a fight we both wernt in the war but i got the brave bloodline in my genetics somthink you aint got p.s its not how large your army is its the training and bloodline back then the ss were supertraind just like the S.A.S

Wel leuk met op de achtergrond een Heineken vrachtwagen

Tell me about the VanAlsts please!!

(lol) First thing I've noticed on this YT is the Heineken truck hi hi Greetings from Haarlem / Holland

We learned this shit in NYC public school!

@Linda-hs1lk

8 жыл бұрын

The fact you react like that shows your stupidity and how bad the school was.

@supaspydamn

8 жыл бұрын

By the college level as long as you could explain yourself, you were never wrong. Just ask a different question to continue the conversation i.e. The Scratic method. So instead of talking out

@supaspydamn

8 жыл бұрын

your ass... explain yourself. Wait forget it! No one here speaks troll anyway lol

@ajhare2

7 жыл бұрын

The rest of the country doesn't learn this part of American History. I never knew about New Amsterdam until I stumbled upon it on google.

@joycegreer9391

7 жыл бұрын

+jjray I learned about New Amsterdam in school (midwest).

Great product placement here by Heineken ;-)

@anthonyf3680

5 жыл бұрын

Marc van Maanen I know yeah as there talking about the Dutch a Heineken truck drives passed

That perfectly timed Heineken truck made my goddamn day!

What's also quite interesting is the shared history of New York and Cape town, South Africa. Both were also founded on displacing and looting from Indigenous communities. First by the Dutch and later by the British.

@willvangaal8412

Жыл бұрын

Er was daar nog niemand jongen , de Zoeloes kwamen van het noorden , pipo

I feel like you should say that that only would be known to historians and academics in the U.S. because in the netherlands we are just getting taught about our colonies, in the east and in the west.

Heineken in the opening shot. Nice touch

Interesting

I have 2 Dutch family's I'm descended from. One of my ancestors bought Staaten island from the Native Americans . For not nearly enough! Today that family is based in W.V.

My Quick family ancestors came to new Amsterdam in 1640 from the Dutch city of Naarden. They were stone masons. Their residence was located in the footprint of the world Trade Center. Within a generation they began to spread out into upstate, Milford, Pennsylvania.

What is he talking about? We learned about the Dutch in school. . . . . At least I did.

De v'lôrene zőn. En kääd’l had twî jongers; de êne blêv täus; de andere xöng vôrt f’n häus f’r en stât. Hāi wāz nît tevrêde täus en dârkîs tû râkni ārm. Hāi doǵti ôm dāt täus en z’n vâders pläk. Tû zāide: äk zāl na häus xâne. Māin vâder hät plänti.

My great great grandfather was from Netherlands. They was from about 60 miles from west virginia in Pennsylvania. I know very very little about them. They relocated to west virginia and the rest in PA. Working on family tree. Van Meter family. So im off to find them. Lol

Strange fact.Im a native New Yorker and Ive noticed that the steps infront of ones home are usually called the stoope in NY.Its an old time phrase but still common.I never heard it any place else in the U.S.Is it a Dutch legacy?

@erwinmulder1338

6 жыл бұрын

Stoep (pronounced stoope) is a Dutch word for the pavement in front of your house (more specifically, the path leading up to your door). In modern day Dutch the word is used more generally to mean any sidewalk.

@JohnnyK60

5 жыл бұрын

Cookie is another Dutch legacy word (NOT biscuit)

I think we should be taught in school very early, along with American history a bit about what Prince William of Orange went through when he fought the Spanish Inquisition. Also how some of his descendants settled in upstate New York. I didn't know anything about him until I did some detailed genealogical research on my own. I know the American Revolution brought with it a rampant disdain for monarchy but there still needs to be respect. It could help us understand how we got here.

@robertcuminale1212

8 жыл бұрын

He's also Prinz Willem of Nassau. The Princes were not Dutch but Germans. Read the words of the national anthem Het Wilhelmus.

The Bronx is also named after a Dutchman called Jonas Bronck, who established the first settlement in the area as part of the New Netherland colony in 1639.

@robinsinpost

8 жыл бұрын

He was from Sweden originally. He emigrated to Denmark and then Holland.

@bigred9428

2 ай бұрын

And Yonkers is from Jonkers.

I hope the tour guide knew he was gonna be a host of a webseries by Dutch reporters.

New Amsterdam is love!

What about the swedish colony in america?

SIR Henry Staats, or rather States, he was also known as Sir Henrey Giuse. A.k.a. I think I spelled I right... the title earned each state in the US. Uses that term! It's a Dutch title!

Oh how I wish New York (Nieuw Amstel Dam) was just a city of canals lined with gabled row houses

Interesting. The 17th century was also a time that UK and Dutch had had a lot of battles. And UK at the end won and gained hegemony. That parallels the new continent’s territorial gain and lose.

So, the humanities were introduced in the 1970’s and we became divided and look at us now! Look at New York now. Look at the rest of the country now. I visited New York when I was in fifth grade. I thought it was wonderful.I’ve wanted to visit New York for about the past 7 years to show my kids. Not now or in the foreseeable future. We should not become divided. “United we stand divided we fall”

I enjoy the comments from the Dutch (who know things from the Dutch side, versus the English side.) But I think this intro to Dutch tourists about American negligence needs some qualifications. As an American born in 1946, I was educated in the '50's, not the '70's. I definitely recall some history of the Dutch in New Amsterdam being taught even in elementary school. (And I'm not from New York.) Of course the history of anything before the war of independence in 1776, and unrelated to it, was isolated to just a few things. That makes it remarkable that New Amsterdam was selected for attention at all, not that its history was sketchy. New Amsterdam was familiar enough to be in the lyrics of a rhythmic smash hit of the pre-rock-n-roll '50's called "You Can't Go Back to Constantinople." (The funny lyrics explain you can't go back because it is now named Istanbul.) Somewhere along the line, we are told that Yankee, as in the ironically defiant anthem of the revolution, "Yankee Doodle," goes back to an English epithet for earlier settlers of New York (who were great cheese eaters as a result of being Dutch) that referred to a once common cheese. In Literature classes, in connection with author Washington Irving, we are told that he used Dutch types familiar to New Yorker's. The legendary story of Rip Van Winkle, who slept 20 years, is supposed to be an exaggeration of a habit of the carefree Dutch to nap whenever the mood strikes them for as long as they feel. I have often seen it said that the Brooklyn accent, which has "d" for "th," goes back to the early Dutch settlers accent when speaking English. Although the everyday Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam may not have gotten due respect from the English, their decedents became some of the most fabulously wealthy families in America, such as the Vanderbilts. Two of the very wealthy were elected Presidents of the United States, the Roosevelt's. Often Dutch-ness is not mentioned, when it probably would be for other heritages, because it is not "ethnic" enough, too American. For example, I did not know (until recently) that one of the most famous men (other than a politician) in American history, Thomas Edison, was Dutch. Somehow, from its older namesake, it could have been predicted that New York City would attain prominence and wealth by being both a financial center and a center of trade.

2:09 I grew up in Pennsylvania & we were never taught that the Dutch owned part of our state. The story we were told of our neighbors to the North is that Stuyvesant was an annoying tyrant & his own people wouldn't fight for him & just surrendered to the English without a fight.

The West India Company saw New Amsterdam as a trading post, not a colony. Thats why the Dutch Republic never send a strong enough army over. If they would have done that, then maybe the USA would be mainly a Germanic culture instead of Anglo-Saxon.

I need the name of his book please.

@here_we_go_again2571

4 жыл бұрын

"The Island at The Center of The World" -- Russell Shorto

In June 1667, the Dutch "Raid on the Medway" at the mouth of the River Thames attacked the laid up English fleet. The daring raid remains the greatest naval disaster in the history of the English Royal Navy (and its predecessors). Because of this the 1667 Treaty of Breda ended the Second Anglo-Dutch War in favour of the Dutch; the Dutch did not press their claims on New Netherland, and the status quo was maintained, with the Dutch occupying Suriname and the nutmeg island of Run. Within six years, the nations were again at war. This time the Dutch were attacked by England, France and German states at the same time. The Dutch recaptured New Netherland in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships. In November 1674, the Treaty of Westminster concluded the war and ceded New Netherland with New Amsterdam to the English. So New York was ceded to the English in change for taken (more profitable) former English colonies. The Glorious Revolution, also called the Bloodless Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange. William's successful invasion of England with a Dutch fleet and army led to his ascension to the throne as William III of England jointly with his wife, Mary II, James's daughter, after the Declaration of Right, leading to the Bill of Rights 1689. The Bill of Rights lays down limits on the powers of the monarch and sets out the rights of Parliament, including the requirement for free elections and freedom of speech in Parliament. It sets out certain rights of individual freedom. In a way, (although and I don't see this for me obvious connection on many websites/or in books) this deal between this "strange" Dutch Republic's stadtholder "figure", used to limited powers already, and English Parliament, made it probably easier for the USA to claim independence about a century later! The Dutch Republic was one of the first nation-states of Europe where citizenship and civil liberties were extended to large segments of the population. The Act of Abjuration, essentially the declaration of independence of the United Provinces from the Spanish throne, is strikingly similar to the later American Declaration of Independence, though there is no concrete evidence that one influenced the other. John Adams went so far as to say that “the origins of the two Republics are so much alike that the history of one seems but a transcript from that of the other.” The Articles of Capitulation (outlining the terms of transfer to the English) in 1664 provided for the right to worship as one wished, and were incorporated into subsequent city, state, and national constitutions in the USA, and are the legal and cultural code that lies at the root of the New York Tri-State traditions. The concept of tolerance was the mainstay of the province's Dutch mother country. The Dutch Republic was a haven for many religious and intellectual refugees fleeing oppression, as well as home to the world's major ports in the newly developing global economy. Concepts of religious freedom and free-trade (including a stock market) were Netherlands imports. In 1682, visiting Virginian William Byrd commented about New Amsterdam that "they have as many sects of religion there as at Amsterdam". The framers of the U.S. Constitution were influenced by the Constitution of the Republic of the United Provinces. The settlers of New Netherland were obligated to uphold religious toleration as a legal right by the Dutch Republic's founding document, the 1579 Union of Utrecht, which stated that "everyone shall remain free in religion and that no one may be persecuted or investigated because of religion." For early American historians this statement, unique in the world at its time, lies at the root of American pluralism. So the Yankees (common Dutch first names Jan & Kees) brought more to the USA than cookies, stoops and Santa Claus (Sinterklaas)!

@corettaha7855

5 жыл бұрын

Knut de Wit the native Americans, French, and English also present equally convincing evidence that they invented us, so it’s cool for you to be proud of your culture, but Dutch influence in America isn’t that prominent. After all, almost half the country was Spanish the whole time you and England were sniping at each other, trading lands that belonged to abused victims of colonial policies that were ultimately forsaken by all of Europe as reprehensible and wicked. We don’t celebrate our Spanish heritage either.

Somewhere between 20 to 25 million Americans in the USA have Dutch roots.

@SandfordSmythe

Жыл бұрын

Bruce Springsteen

2:45 guy hugs a pole in the background

Apple pie is from "appeltaart"

The Van Etten family had it's start when Jacob Jansen ( De Long or Delange) came to New Netherland in 1652. He worked under Adrian VanDerdonck's Patroonship, both were from Breda, Nord Brabant. Jacob had come with two friends Annetje Arians and Aert Tack who marry but a series of misfortunes occurred to Mr and Mrs Tack. Aert would mismanage his farm and would become desperate, so under the cover of one of the Esopus Indian attacks he would desert his wife and farm. Annetje would have to travel to New Amsterdam to petition the court for a divorce when she learned that he was not dead as first thought from the Indian attack. The two had owned a piece of property it is said in New Amsterdam as well as Pavonia. Once the divorce was settled Annetje would return to her farm in Wiltwyck and within a year marry her friend and farm hand Jacob Jansen. In time the family assumes the surname of Van Etten where Jacob was from. 351 years later the family has been involved in every facet of American history. Kiddingly I often say we are like Forrest Gump where by a family member is at the scene of every land expansion to a moment in America's history and have fought every War that this country has been in. A history of the Van Etten family...vimeo.com/126142840

that heineken fan in the begin of the video DUTCH !!

@cryzmyth

7 жыл бұрын

Heineken® truck

@Joop.23-2-63

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a Grolsch fan. So I prever to see a Grolsch van.

they (the english) despised is because that tiny country humiliated them time after time. Michiel de Ruyter went with his ship into the Thems, and destroyed a fleet and took their mainship with them back home 😂

@LuvBorderCollies

7 жыл бұрын

It was counted as a British Navy victory because the Dutch did not take all their ships back to Holland. LOL

@SimplyLimbo

7 жыл бұрын

LuvBorderCollies Show me the source of what you're stating...

@mvg0407

7 жыл бұрын

Don't forget the Dutch were the last ones to successfully invade Britain and took their crown. William of Orange, Britain's Dutch king.

@ronaldderooij1774

7 жыл бұрын

Well, if you count all the sea battles in the 17th century (and beyond) and the victories, the English really win.

@SimplyLimbo

7 жыл бұрын

Ronald de Rooij Afcourse, Brittains first line of defence is the fact that they are surrounded by water, so a string navy can keep ships away from the nation. Especially ships with troops on board. And they knew if they made their fleet bigger and bigger, and rule the waves, and colonize a lot of places you can rule the world. The dutch thought the same way, though a small country, back n the day together with prussia we were the spartans of Europe.

bouerie--Bowery (farm)--Not ALL Americans are unaware of the Dutch history of our nation. Those of us with Dutch ancestry (my English-French grandmother married--beneath her, so the family felt--a Dutch man. Not Pennsylvania Dutch (German). Holland Dutch. My paternal great-grandmother, also an English girl, married a Dutch man from Holland (also "beneath her" in the family's eyes) as well. We learned Dutch words such as "tulpen" and were given the story, Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge to read as soon as we were able. We were encouraged to travel the Hudson (Day-Liner Cruises out of NYC) to see the places along the Hudson for ourselves. Poughkeepsie, where the Dy-Liner turns around on its return trip to NYC, was founded by the Dutch (Dutchess County) and is the home of Vassar college as well as the Smith Brothers cough drop facility. www.britannica.com/place/Poughkeepsie

I love history and Puerto Rico schools learned about the Dutch in New York😰😍😀

@corettaha7855

5 жыл бұрын

Judith Sanchez we learned about them in Texas too. I wonder where they got the idea that we don’t know about this? Love to Puerto Rico!

Another historical tidbit is that the Dutch brought the first group of Jewish people to America, to New Amsterdam. I don't recall all the details but I believe they were accountants brought there from a Caribbean plantation because of trouble or war with the English. ps visited old Amsterdam and had a good time, loved the people.

As a native New Yorker I would say that the "Dutch" part of our history is only really relevant to New Yorkers...not ALL Americans. And really, only in the foundation of the city. Not many new Yorkers today have any Dutch ancestry. Although you might have a point about some of "White" Americans...with last names like 'Wyckoff', etc... I mean, you're kinda right, but Americans are usually so uneducated about history in general. It's just one detail among so many!

@svw1978

4 жыл бұрын

En de gebieden rondom Nieuw Amsterdam natuurlijk. En voor de rest vinden wij Amerika niet zo interessant. Amerika jullie zijn niet meer de wereldmacht dat is China

@nickdentoom1173

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, the Dutch part of your history is relevant to all Americans, since in New Amsterdam, the War for Independence started and the Dutch were the first to declare them independent.

Declaration of Independence = Plakkaat van Verlatinge/Act of Abjuration written in the Netherlands in 1581.

@corettaha7855

5 жыл бұрын

Initial or the Magna Carta of the English. The French also like to take credit for our revolution. But it was against the English that we revolted. They had driven the French and Dutch out of New England by then and we fought them for our freedom. Even the Dutch speak mostly English now thanks to their cultural impact on America.

maar nederland was dus wel de grondlegger van amerika