Anthony Janszoon van Salee
Original settler of and prominent landholder, merchant, and creditor in New Netherlands, said to have been the first Muslim of New York · Lived 1607 to 1676 · aged 69
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Something wrong?Anthony Janszoon van Salee (1607-1676) was an original settler of and prominent landholder, merchant, and creditor in New Netherland, a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States of America.
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Manatus Map drawn in 1639 showing van Salee's Wallenstein property in Lower Manhattan
1736 Herman Moll map, Cartagena in red
Map of van Salee former properties and house at Turk's Plantation from 1788 lawsuit, printed in 1806.
Western Long Island and Coney Island in 1666, two years after van Salee sold his property to Francis de Bruyn or Brown.
A map from 1655 depicting a van Salee property on Bridge Street in New Amsterdam
An illustration from 1652 depicting a van Salee propertyIn their orbit
Father: Jan Mourad JanszoonAbout this person
Anthony Janszoon van Salee (1607-1676) was an original settler of and prominent landholder, merchant, and creditor in New Netherland, a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States of America. Van Salee was commonly known as Anthony the Turk due to his religion. It is unknown if van Salee was actually Muslim; if so he may have been the first free Muslim settler and landholder in the land that would later become the United States. He was recorded as owning a Quran.
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