biography
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Knickerbocker, Harmen Jansen
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1650–c.1716)
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| biography:
| Colonist, from Friesland, one of the earliest settlers of New Amsterdam (New York). He went to New Amsterdam in 1674 and settled near Albany (1682). A descendant, Johannes (1749–1827), was a friend of Washington Irving, who immortalized the name through his History of New York by ‘Diedrich Knickerbocker’ (1809). |
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