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African Burial Ground National MonumentThe Boys and Girls Choirs of Harlem at the 2003 Reinterment Ceremonies
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Wouter van Twiller  

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The first and only European to claim private ownership of Governors Island was Wouter van Twiller, a man appointed by the Dutch West India Company as director of New Netherland between 1633 and 1638.

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