A | B |
charter | a written document listing the rights of the people |
slave trade | buying and selling people to use as slaves |
surrender | to give up |
bouwerie | the Dutch word for farm |
spinning wheel | a machine run by a foot pedal with a large wheel that turns to spin thread |
stoop | the Dutch word for porch |
tulip | one of the first flowers to bloom in the spring, brought to America by the Dutch |
windmill | a mill that grinds wheat and corn when the wind turns its large blades |
Colonel Nicolls | the first English governor of New York |
warming pan | this was filled with coals from the fire, then moved quickly between the bed's covers to heat them up |
patroon | a person in the Dutch India West Company who would receive a large plot of land for settlement |
corn pestle | colonists used this bowl and stick to grind food into flour |
wooden churn | butter was made by pumping cream up and down in this |