Dutch Americans

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Post by tamara on Oct 30, 2020 10:28:54 GMT

Dutch Americans are Americans of Dutch descent whose ancestors came from the Netherlands in the recent or distant past. Whether it is intentional, they usually maintain connections with their Dutch heritage, by having, for example, a Dutch surname or belonging to a Dutch community group. Dutch settlement in the Americas started in 1613 with New Amsterdam, which was exchanged with the British for the current Suriname at the Treaty of Breda (1667) and renamed to New York City. The British split the Dutch colony of New Netherland into two pieces, and named them New York and New Jersey. Further waves of immigration occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Prominent Dutch American political figures include Presidents Martin Van Buren, Warren G. Harding and Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.S. Senators Philip Schuyler, Nicholas Van Dyke, Hamilton Fish, John C. Ten Eyck, Daniel W. Voorhees, Arthur Vandenberg, Peter G. Van Winkle, Alan Simpson, Fred Thompson, John Hoeven and Christopher Van Hollen. Two of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Egbert Benson and John Jay, were also of Dutch descent. Governors John Hickenlooper of Colorado, Harold G. Hoffman and Thomas Kean of New Jersey, William Henry Vanderbilt III of Rhode Island, George Bell Timmerman Jr. of South Carolina and Cornelius P. Van Ness of Vermont were also born to Dutch American families.
According to the 2013 American Community Survey, an estimated 4.5 million Americans claim total or partial Dutch heritage. Today the majority of the Dutch Americans live in Michigan, California, Montana, Minnesota, Illinois, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, New York, Wisconsin, Idaho, Utah, Iowa, Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Americans

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlandse_Amerikanen

web.archive.org/web/20110817224045/http://historicus.web-log.nl/mijn_weblog/emigratie/index.html

dare.ubvu.vu.nl/handle/1871/13294

dbnl.org/tekst/_nie012201101_01/_nie012201101_01_0005.php

dspace.ubvu.vu.nl/handle/1871/19071

Lawrence Gwyn Van Loon :

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Gwyn_van_Loon

dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=loon041

www.wlhn.org/users/wlhn/web/wisconsonian/june99/dutch_settlements.htm

Dutch in Lynden, Washington

www.mokeham.com/dekrant/2014/11/01/infobox-nederlanders-in-lynden-washington/

www.metropolistv.nl/en/themes/i-love-holland/welcome-to-holland-michigan-usa

www.dutchgenealogy.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=60&Itemid=35

www.dutchgenealogy.nl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=94&Itemid=35

Moving to Holland?

www.carolgenzink.com/holland_mi_video.aspx

Holland, Michigan pictures Gallery

www.tugoz.com/album.php?catid=122

Holland, Mich., Ranks 2nd on Well-Being Index, Topping Honolulu

abcnews.go.com/WN/michigan-town-happiest-places-america/story?id=9865005&page=1

www.godutch.com/newspaper/index.php?id=816

Pella (Iowa)

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella_(Iowa)

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella-Nederlands

www.cityofpella.com/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella,_Iowa

Holland in Michigan

gereformeerdekerken.info/ds-a-c-van-raalte-1811-1876/

Betsy Devos comes from Michigan :
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_DeVos

borculo.us/

Donald Trump is been said to have German roots but Trump does look very much on the Dutch surname Tromp... Just saying

Americans with surnames such as Steketee, van Koevering, Dubbink, Jansen, De Vries, De Pree, de Jong proof very clear their Dutch origins.

www.ad.nl/buitenland/trump-benoemt-hoekstra-63-tot-ambassadeur-vs-in-nederland~a36e9d02/

www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/03/holland-in-michigan-no-longer-says-welkom/

Alexander Seymour (Rick) van Santvoord jr. (Glen Cove (New York), 1935 – Washington D.C., 2 februari 2001)

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_van_Santvoord

Yonkers, originated from Jonkheer

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonkers

Amsterdam ( Montgomery County(
New York)
nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_(stad_in_New_York)

Schoonmaker:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoonmaker

Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt (New York, 27 oktober 1858 - Oyster Bay (New York), 6 januari 1919)

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt

nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosevelt_(familie)

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Post by Clovis Merovingian on Oct 30, 2020 11:14:09 GMT

Yes, the former colony of New Netherland, the Dutch settled areas in New York and Northern New Jersey, still has the characteristics of Amsterdam during the Dutch Golden Age despite the Dutch there being in the minority. The values and type of society that New York City and Northern New Jersey are is very Dutch rather than Anglo Saxon in character. The book American Nations, a History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America lists New Netherland as one of the eleven Stateless Nations of North America and describes it thusly.

New Netherland: Modeled on its namesake, the short-lived colony of New Amsterdam was from the start a global commercial trading society: a multi-ethnic, multi-religious, speculative, materialistic, mercantile, free trading, raucous, and not-entirely democratic city-state where no one ethnic or religious group has ever been in charge. New Netherland nurtured two Dutch innovations considered "subversive" by most European states: a profound tolerance of diversity and an unflinching commitment to the freedom of inquiry. Forced on other nations at the Constitutional Convention, these ideas have been passed down in the Bill of Rights. While losing the upper Hudson and Delaware Valleys to Yankeedom and the Midlands, respectively, New Netherlands is today comprised of the five boroughs of New York City, the lower Hudson Valley, northern New Jersey, western Long Island, and southwestern Connecticut. A center of global commerce, New Netherland has long been the front door for immigrants, who've made it the most densely populated part of North America. Its population is greater than that of many European nations and its influence over North American media, publishing, fashion and intellectual and economic life is hard to overstate.

I myself have distant Dutch ancestry. My ancestor was this dude in New York that got tomahawked to death in an Indian raid. He also has a very interesting last name, Vanderbilt.

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