His 1809 work "A History of New York" relates the Dutch occupation of Manhattan
In 1809, New Yorkers were buzzing about a series of classified ads 
... A History of New York is a chronicle of New York's fifty years under Dutch rule 
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... [DOC] [TLE] TOUR UNIT ONE - Mapsites.net [PAR] Lower Manhattan- Origins: Native Americans, Knickerbockers and the New 
Republic ... Washington Irving, A History of New York, frontespeice, pp.