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ThwompNL t1_jc2pql0 wrote

Reply to comment by CustomSawdust in 1664 New Amsterdam becomes New York, English warships in the harbor. Looking S on Broadway from the Wall. wwwsavingny.com for reconstructions, 3/15 NYC Fire Museum Opening by Impressive_Run_6557

Fun fact, Dutch surnames are written with spaces in between. His name in Dutch would be “van der Donck”.

“van der” (sometimes also “van de” or just “van”) means something like “of the”. It is always written in lowercase.

Source: am Dutch with a similar last name.

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HaoDasShiDewYit t1_jcie5d0 wrote

learned this when i was reading abt cornelius vanderbilt and i found out his name just means "from de bilt", which is a town in holland

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