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    New World Players

    Jan 01, 2020 2 minutes
    by Emily Cambias

    When New York Was New

    The Dutch arrived in North America in 1609. Dutch trading companies sent explorers across the Atlantic Ocean. Those expeditions established fur-trading  outposts along the Hudson and Delaware rivers. The Dutch town of New Amsterdam on the island of present-day

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