File:The Duke's Plan (New Amsterdam).jpg

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English: A plan of New Amsterdam shortly before it became New York, drawn by an unknown member of the Thames school of chartmakers, and probably presented to th colony's proprietor the Duke of York (James II). This document has been called "the birth certificate of New York".
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Author Unknown member of Thames school

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