Editing Languages of the United States (section)

====Low Dutch====
{{further|Jersey Dutch language}}
{{further|Mohawk Dutch}}

There has been a Dutch presence in North America since establishment of 17th-century colony of [[New Netherland]] (parts of New York, New Jersey and Delaware), where Dutch was spoken by the [[New Netherlander]], the original settlers, and their descendants. It was still spoken in the region at the time of the American Revolution and thereafter. For example, [[Alexander Hamilton]]'s wife, [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton|Eliza Hamilton]], attended a Dutch-language church during their marriage. African-American abolitionist and women's rights activist [[Sojourner Truth]] (born "Isabella Baumfree") was a native speaker of Dutch. [[Martin Van Buren]], the first president born in the United States following its independence from Great Britain, spoke Dutch as his [[native language]]. He is the only U.S. president whose [[first language]] was not English.

Vernacular dialects of Dutch were spoken in northeastern New Jersey (Bergen, Hudson, Passaic county) and the Capital District of New York until they gradually declined throughout the 20th century.