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Pavonia, New Netherland
European settlement on the Hudson River / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pavonia was the first European settlement on the west bank of the North River (Hudson River) that was part of the seventeenth-century province of New Netherland in what would become the present Hudson County, New Jersey.[1]
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