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Beverwyck was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherland that was to become Albany, New York when the English took control of the colony in 1664. Fort Orange (Fort Oranje was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland. The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk, the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami New Netherland (Dutch Nieuw-Nederland, Latin Novum Belgium or Nova Belgica) 1614–1674 is the name of the former Dutch territory on the eastern coast Albany is the Capital of the State of New York and the County seat of Albany County. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

During the 1640s, the name Beverwyck began to be used informally for the settlement of fur traders north of the fort. In 1652, the Dutch West India Company took control of that area and made the name official. Dutch West India Company ( Dutch: Geoctroyeerde Westindische Compagnie or GWC; English: Chartered West India Company was a company of By 1660, a palisade was built around Beverwyck and it had become economically and politically successful, with large families residing in the community. palisade is a steel or wooden Fence or wall of variable height usually used as a defensive structure

Another Beverwyck is situated in New Jersey and was a large estate around the time of the US Civil War. New Jersey ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. For other uses see Estate. An estate comprises the houses and outbuildings and supporting farmland and woods that surround the gardens and grounds There is, of course, also the "original" Beverwyck in the Netherlands, situated on the North Sea coast. Beverwijk ( is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands

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