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Definition of Manhattan island
1. Noun. An island at the north end of New York Bay where the borough of Manhattan is located.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manhattan Island
Literary usage of Manhattan island
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Geological History of Manhattan Or New York Island: Together with a Map of by Issachar Cozzens (1843)
"... YORK OR manhattan island. Plate 1, Fig. 1. This island is about 13 miles long,
in a straight line, from the point of the Battery to Kingsbridge ; but by ..."
2. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1883)
"6, manhattan island. This day, date underwritten, before mo Cornelia van Tienhoven,
Secretary, in presence of the underwritten witnesses, appeared the ..."
3. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1886)
"18, North River, or from or to any place in manhattan island, to or from certain
... Both manhattan island and Staten Island are to the State of New York. ..."
4. The German Element in the United States by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
"... purchaser and governor of manhattan island () ; founder of New Sweden () —
Jacob Leisler, governor of New York, defender of the people's cause, ..."
5. Native Cemeteries and Forms of Burial East of the Mississippi by David Ives Bushnell (1920)
"manhattan island AND SOUTHWARD An early description of the burial customs of the
native inhabitants of New Netherlands, probably based on some ceremonies ..."
6. History of American Verse (1610-1897) by James Lawrence Onderdonk (1901)
"Very different in tone and temper was that group of verse writers who appeared
on manhattan island, and by pointed satire, ..."
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