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Identifier: dutchnewyork01sing (find matches)
Title: Dutch New York
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930
Subjects: Dutch Americans -- New York (State) New York New York (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs To 1775 New York (State) -- History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ll, there should beany to buy. This, joined to the health fulness, pleasantness, andfruit fulness thereof, are great encouragements to peoplerather to seek the bettering of their fortunes here thanelsewhere; so that it may be hoped that a little time willrender the inhabitants more numerous than at presentthey are. In 1670, Denton says: they sow store of ilax which they make every one clothof for their own weaving, as also woollen cloth and linsey-woolsey, and had they more tradesmen amongst them,they would in a little time live without the help of anyother country for their clothing. Here you need nottrouble the shambles for meat, nor bakers and brewersfor beer and bread, nor run to a linen-draper for a supply,every one making their own linen and a great part oftheir woollen cloth. With regard to the trades, the only ones that cor-responded to some degree with the Dutch guilds werethose of the butcher, baker, and brewer. The houseswith the verandas under which goods were displayed in
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;«?»4-:.««)Ctfi^>K=^^??#^^:r^;v;;s:«»/i.v.>^ From an old print OLD DUTCH HOUSE IN BROAD STREETNEW AMSTERDAM, 1698 MERCHANTS AND TRADE 345 Holland existed here; but, as a rule, the shop-goodsconsisted of a heterogeneous conglomeration in whichthe purchaser might find anything from a prayer-bookto a pack of cards, a Jews-harp to an anchor. Thebakers, of course, confined their wares to the favoriteDutch confectioneries. Thus, in 1661, Hendrick Jan-sen was sued for exhibiting gingerbread in his windowwithout offering large bread for sale. It may be noticed, in passing, that authorities whoseduties corresponded to a modern board of health de-prived the owner of perishable goods when they becamesufficiently malodorous to create a nuisance and soldthem for the benefit of unnamed parties — perhaps fornegro or Indian consumption. Thus, in May, 1660,some Dutch imported cheeses were seized and sold byauction because they created a great stench both in Vander Vins cellar as thereabo

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