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Queens

Clearly the largest county within the city of New York, Queens shares the same history in that several tribes of American Indians also originally inhabited it. Its vast marsh like open fields made it most attractive to the early 17th century Dutch farmers who named what is now most of Queens, New Netherland. 

The territory was renamed Queens after Queen Catherine of Braganza who reigned with King Charles II. At that time much of what is now Nassau County was also part of the new colony called Queens. Loyalty to the crown among most of the inhabitants of Queens was strong through most of the American Revolution making the colony a major military occupied area with residential support.

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