Editing New Netherland (section)

===Language and place names===
{{see|List of New Netherland placename etymologies}}
{{see also|Yankee}}
[[File:North River Gutenberg jeh.JPG|thumb|The ''[[North River (New York-New Jersey)|Noort Rivier]]'' was one of the three main rivers in New Netherland.]]
Dutch continued to be spoken in the region for some time. President [[Martin Van Buren]] grew up in [[Kinderhook (town), New York|Kinderhook, New York]] speaking only Dutch, becoming the only president not to have spoken English as a first language.<ref>{{cite book|last=Sturgis|first=Amy H.|author-link=Amy Sturgis|title=The Trail of Tears and Indian Removal|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|year=2007|page=93|isbn=978-0-313-33658-4}}</ref> A dialect known as [[Jersey Dutch]] was spoken in and around rural [[Bergen County, New Jersey|Bergen]] and [[Passaic County, New Jersey|Passaic]] counties in New Jersey until the early 20th century.<ref>{{cite book|last=Mencken|first=H.L.|author-link=H. L. Mencken|title=The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States|url=http://www.bartleby.com/185/|edition=2nd revised and enlarged|orig-year=1921|year=2000|publisher=bartleby.com|location=New York|chapter=Dutch|chapter-url=http://www.bartleby.com/185/a12.html}}</ref> [[Mohawk Dutch]] was spoken around [[Albany, New York|Albany]].<ref>{{Cite book
| publisher = Munsell's Sons
| last = Pearson
| first = Jonathan
|author2=Junius Wilson MacMurray
 | title = A History of the Schenectady Patent in the Dutch and English Times
| location =  Schenectady (NY)
| others = Original from Harvard University, Digitized May 10, 2007.
| year = 1883
}}</ref>

Early settlers and their descendants gave many place names that are still in use throughout the region of New Netherland.<ref name="frontiers.loc.gov"/> They adapted [[Native Americans in the United States|Indian]] names for locations such as [[Manhattan]], [[Hackensack, New Jersey|Hackensack]], [[Sing-Sing]], and [[Canarsie]]. [[Peekskill]], [[Catskill (village), New York|Catskill]], and [[Cresskill]] all refer to the streams, or ''kils'', around which they grew. Among those that use ''hoek'', meaning ''corner'',<ref name="Voorhees">{{cite book
|last=Voorhees
|first=David William
|title=Dutch New York:The Roots of Hudson Valley Culture
|year=2009
|publisher=Fordham University Press; Hudson River Museum
|location=Yonkers, NY
|isbn=978-0-8232-3039-6
|chapter=The Dutch Legacy in America
|page=418}}
</ref> are [[Constable Hook]], [[Kinderhook (town), New York|Kinderhook]], [[Paulus Hook]], [[Red Hook, New York|Red Hook]], and [[Sandy Hook, New Jersey|Sandy Hook]].