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That's right, if it weren't for the fact that those leaf-eating, dam- and lodge-building furry friends of the forest made great hats, this town may never have been. It turns out that when Henry Hudson - an Englishman who was sailing for the Dutch - cruised up the now-Hudson River in , he discovered that beavers were in abundance. At the time of his finding, according to Clarence Anspake Jr.

This revelation was part of Anspake's well-attended lecture at Bellmore's Memorial Library last week. Soon after Hudson's return, the Dutch established New Netherland, a swath of land that stretched from as far south as the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland to as far north as Connecticut. The New Netherland area, said Anspake who's ninth grandparents were part of the Dutch infusion into New Amsterdam back in the midth century was run as a business by the recently established Dutch West India Company.

Amsterdam a. New York City was the heart of the operation. Surrounded by English settlements out to the eastern end of Long Island i. East Hampton, Shinnecock, Patchogue and more and in the north to Connecticut, the Dutch looked to modern Nassau County to expand its hold on the new world.

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Anspake noted, however, that it was actually an Englishman, Thomas Southard, who was the first non-native inhabitant in Bellmore. Southard, an English-born farmer, petitioned the Dutch in for a acre parcel of land on what is now Bellmore. It was granted, Anspake told the attentive audience, because Southard agreed to live under the Dutch law that presided here at the time.