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  title info:
    title: Newcomers
    sub title: the story of Anthony and Grietje and the founding of New York
  title info:
    title: Story of Anthony and Grietje and the founding of New York
  name:
    name part: Mikhail, Alan
    name part: 1979-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvi, 212 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: A man thought to be a Muslim from Morocco and a German barmaid fleeing poverty are hardly the images we have of America's august founders. In Newcomers, Alan Mikhail upends the traditional story of America's origins through the revelatory tale of a seventeenth-century immigrant couple by the names of Anthony and Grietje. Married in Amsterdam, the destitute pair emerged from lives of piracy and prostitution in Europe and arrived in 1630s Dutch New Amsterdam, hoping to build a new life. Upon landing on New York City's shores, the swarthy Anthony was attacked for being the Muslim he was not, while Grietje, branded a whore by crude harbor denizens, would become the model of an independent colonial American woman, defiantly mooning her attackers rather than accepting their derision. They endured intense bigotry on crooked neighborhood warrens and in the primitive watering holes of New Amsterdam, battling Dutch authorities and brawling with their neighbors, their appearances in court so frequent that their rebellious existence is seared into the records of early America forever. Eventually ejected from New Amsterdam by Dutch authorities in 1639, they were exiled to the "frontier," to what is now Gravesend Brooklyn, where they and their four daughters farmed and seized land from Native Americans while fighting English colonists from the north. After Grietje died, Anthony moved back to what had become English Manhattan and ended up being one of the richest men in seventeenth-century New York. What is ironic is that this rowdy couple's descendants include some of the most distinguished names in American social and political history, among them the Vanderbilts and President Warren G. Harding. "Through meticulous research" (Russell Shorto), Mikhail has done nothing less than reframe America's original family story, in the process showing that where we have immigration, prejudice trails never far behind. Indeed, we learn of harsh, anti-Muslim sentiment through Anthony and of fe…
  table of contents: Prologue -- Moored and unmoored -- Grietje endures -- Dock love -- Lenapehoking -- Number 22 -- Try her -- Anthony against Anthony -- Schism -- Empire State -- God and Mammon -- Remains -- Aftermath -- The Anthony in all of us.
  note: Alan Mikhail.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Jansen van Salee, Anthony
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Reyniers, Gretje
  subject:
    topic: Immigrants
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Marginality, Social
    geographic: New York (State)
    geographic: New York
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    geographic: New York (N.Y.)
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
  subject:
    geographic: New York (State)
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: New York (État)
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
  subject:
    geographic: New York (État)
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
    genre: Biographies
  subject:
    topic: Marginalité
    geographic: New York (État)
    geographic: New York
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: 17e siècle
  subject:
    geographic: New York (N.Y.)
    topic: Histoire
    temporal: ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
  classification: F122.1 .M554 2026
  classification: 974.702
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Newcomers
    name:
      name part: Mikhail, Alan, 1979-
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2026
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1590083460
  identifier: 9781324095835
  identifier: 1324095830
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 250913
    record change date: 20260801173526.0
    record identifier: in00005789651
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng