His 1809 work "A History of New York" relates the Dutch occupation of Manhattan
.... by Irving in his 1809 Knickerbocker's History of New York 
from The Beginning of... [DOC] [TLE] Washington Irving - Wikipedia [PAR] In late 1809, while mourning the death of his seventeen-year-old fiance Matilda 
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