The Miller ancestors were among the first in New England and instrumental in the early days of New York City. Jan Corneliszen De Zeeuw arrived on Manhattan Island in 1651, when still known as New Amsterdam. The Dutch founded New Amsterdam in 1624 as a fur trading settlement. (The Dutch are the people from the Netherlands, also known as Holland.)Ten years earlier, the Dutch had founded their first trading post in Fort Nassau (Albany), up the Hudson River, but New Amsterdam would eventually eclipse Fort Nassau.
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