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class="MsoNormal">The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle the area on the western edge of Long Island, which was then largely inhabited by the Lenape, a Native American people who are often referred to in contemporary colonial documents by a variation of the place name "Canarsie." The "Breuckelen" settlement, named after Breukelen in the Netherlands, was part of New Nether land, and the Dutch West India Company lost little time in chartering the six original parishes (listed here first by their later, more common English names):

Gravesend: in 1645, settled under Dutch patent by English followers of the Anabaptist, Lady Deborah Moody, after the town 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands

Brooklyn: as "Breuckelen" in 1646, after the town now spelled Breukelen, Netherlands

Flatlands: as "New Amersfoort" in 1647

Flatbush: as "Midwout" in 1652

New Utrecht: in 1657, after the city of Utrecht, Netherlands

Bushwick: as "Boswijck" in 1661

Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furman's early (1824) compilation.

The capital of the colony, New Amsterdam across the river, obtained its charter later than Brooklyn did, in 1653.

Six townships in an English province

What is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, in a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. New Netherland was taken in a naval

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