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Cover issued in commemoration of Jacob Barsimson, erroneously claiming that he was “the first Jew to arrive in America” on August 22, 1662. In fact, Joachim Gaunse had arrived on our shores almost ...
In “Taking Manhattan,” author Russell Shorto writes about the deal that New Netherland Director General Peter Stuyvesant made with English military officer Richard Nicolls to transfer the Dutch colony ...