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The Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam of September 1654 was the first organized Jewish migration to North America. It comprised 23 Sephardi Jews , refugees "big and little" of families fleeing persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition after the conquest of Dutch Brazil .
He then sought permission from the Dutch to establish a colony in what is now New York City. He was granted permission. He assembled approximately 60 families of Walloons and Dutch Protestants for the settlement in New Amsterdam, New Netherland. The first permanent settlers would arrive in New Amsterdam during May 1624 (without de Forest).
Johannes de Peyster Sr. (born in Haarlem, Holland, about 1600; died in New Amsterdam (now New York City) about 1685) was a Dutch merchant who immigrated to New Netherland some time before 1651. He was the patriarch of a long line of influential and wealthy family members , who, along with the Van Cortlands , Schuylers , Livingstons , and others ...
Julian Jarrold (1960–), English film-maker, descended from the prominent Jarrold's family of Norwich, known for the department store and publishing businesses, family of Huguenot or Dutch descent. [196] Dakota Johnson (1989–), American actress and model, daughter of Don Johnson. [197] [198] Don Johnson (1949–), American actor. [197]
A number of New Amsterdam's families were of Huguenot origin, often having emigrated as refugees to the Netherlands in the previous century. In 1628 the Huguenots established a congregation as L'Église française à la Nouvelle-Amsterdam (the French church in New Amsterdam).
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The English kept the island of Manhattan, the Dutch giving up their claim to New Amsterdam and the rest of the colony, while the English formally abandoned Surinam in South America, and the island of Run in the East Indies to the Dutch, confirming their control of the valuable Spice Islands. The area occupied by New Amsterdam is now Lower ...