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Van Twiller, Wouter
Van Twiller, Wouter( 1580?–1656?),Dutch governor of New Netherland (1633–37). Although ably attending to the commercial interests of the colony, he was considered incompetent and was constantly quarreling with the English of Massachusetts and Connecticut colonies. He is satirized as Walter the Doubter in Irving's History of New York.
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