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Aug 17, 2010 · The name Manhattan derives from the word Manna-hata, as written in the 1609 logbook of Robert Juet, an officer on Henry Hudson's yacht Halve Maen (Half Moon). A 1610 map depicts the name Manahata twice, on both the west and east sides of the Mauritius River (later named the Hudson River).
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For more than two centuries, New York City consisted only of Manhattan Island. The word “Manhattan” comes from a dialect of the Lenape Native Americans, and can be translated as “a thicket where wood can be found to make bows.” The bow and arrow were a chief means of hunting. The name was first recorded in writing as Manna-hata in the logbook of an...
The Bronx, by most accounts, takes its name from Swedish settler Jonas Bronck, the first European to live in its territory, establishing a settlement in what is now Mott Haven in 1639. Bronck leased land from the Dutch West India Company and purchased more from the local Native Americans. He eventually acquired more than 500 acres, and the Bronx Ri...
New York City began adding to its territory in 1874. Prior to that year, all of what is now the Bronx had been part of Westchester County, while maintaining identity as a borough. In 1874, all of the Bronx west of the Bronx River was annexed by Manhattan, or New York County, and Manhattan’s east-west numbered street system was extended into the bor...
Kings County — established in 1683 when the reigning King Charles II was on the British throne — is today coterminous with Brooklyn, which was named by 1663 for the Dutch city of Breukelen, which is derived from “marshy.” The county consisted of six towns, including the original village of Brooklyn along the East River, which had gained in populati...
Queens County is unique in that it is the only New York state county to lose territory upon joining greater New York City. Like Kings County, it was established in 1683, and is thought to be named for Queen Catherine of Braganza, a Portugal native who was married to King Charles II. No documentation, though, has been found to connect her as “the qu...
Staten Island wasn’t officially known by that name until 1975; before that, it was the Borough of Richmond. Richmond County has kept its original name. The island itself was named in the 1600s for the Dutch parliament, known as the Staten-Generaal, and was “Staaten Eylandt” to the Dutch. In 1683, after the island landed in British hands, the county...
Nov 15, 2018 · Manhattan. main island of New York City, from Dutch, from a native name, perhaps representing a Delaware (Algonquian) source akin to Munsee munahan "island."
The territory and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, the Duke of York. New York, based in present-day Manhattan, served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790.
“Manhattan” was the first Native American place-name to be record-ed by Europeans between Chesapeake Bay and the coast of Maine, and not surprisingly its early attestation is marked by some uncertainty. It appears in two sources that document Henry Hudson’s expedition of 1609: an English map4 and the log of the voyage kept by Robert Juet.5
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The name Manhattan originated from the Lenape's language, Munsee, manaháhtaan (where manah-means "gather", -aht-means "bow", and -aan is an abstract element used to form verb stems). The Lenape word has been translated as "the place where we get bows" or "place for gathering the (wood to make) bows".
Mar 21, 2018 · Manhattan, the iconic borough of New York City, holds a rich tapestry of hidden etymologies within its name. Originally inhabited by the Lenape people, the island was first encountered by European explorers in the early 17th century.
