2. Noun. (plural of manhattan) ¹
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Definition of Manhattans
1. manhattan [n] - See also: manhattan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manhattans
Literary usage of Manhattans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1883)
"... GRANTING LAND ON manhattans AND LONG ISLAND, ETC. Extracts from the Register
of Resolutions passed by the Directors of the WI Comp. Dept. of Amsterdam. ..."
2. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State Library (1891)
"Mr. Petrus Stuyvesant Director-General of New-Netherland, Cura<;ao, Aruba, etc.
residing at the manhattans in the Fort New-Amsterdam By Mr. ..."
3. History of New Netherland by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1855)
"... that country—First clergyman and first schoolmaster in New Amsterdam—An English
vessel visits the manhattans for the purpose of trading with the Indians ..."
4. Retrographs: Comprising a History of New York City Prior to the Revolution by Ferdinand S. Bartram (1888)
"Among the rivers is the manhattans, or Great River, by far the most important,
... Midway lies Staten Island, and a little further up the manhattans, ..."
5. History of New Netherland Or, New York Under the Dutch by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1848)
"... at the manhattans—Difficulties between the supercargo and the authorities at
New Amsterdam—Vessel and cargo seized—Protests and replications—Occurrences ..."
6. Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, 1638-1674 by New York (State)., Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1868)
"ORDINANCE • Of the Director and Council of Xew Netherland regulating the Ferry
at the manhattans. Passed 1 July, 1654. [NT Col. MSS. IV. 450: V. 289; XVI. ..."
7. A Historical Address, Delivered at the Commemoration of the One Hundredth by Samuel Church (1842)
"the banks of the Connecticut and the Hudson, was possessed by independent villages
of the Mohegans, kindred with the manhattans, whose few smokes once rose ..."
8. The Memorial History of the City of New-York: From Its First Settlement to by James Grant Wilson (1892)
"Who were the manhattans as embraced in this general classification I " With the
manhattans we include," says Van der Donck, " those who live in the ..."
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