myworldtravel.weebly.com This Is Part 6 Of a tour of the neighborhoods Of Bensonhurst And Bath Beach Brooklyn, New York for the very time by bicycle. This Is the beginning of a series of Tours Of the entire borough of Brooklyn New York. There will be more to come so please subscribe to know right away when the next one is done. History a present-day borough of New York City, spans more than 350 years. The settlement began in the seventeenth century as the small Dutch-founded town of "Breuckelen" on the East River shore of Long Island, grew to be a sizable city in the nineteenth century, and, in 1898, was consolidated with the New York City (then Manhattan and part of The Bronx) and with the rural areas of Queens and Staten Island, to form the modern New York City. 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 Netherland, 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 * Brooklyn: as "Breuckelen" in 1646, after the town now spelled Breukelen, Netherlands <b>...</b>
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