Manhattoes

All these did not a little disturb the constitutional serenity of the good and substantial burghers of Mannahata — otherwise called Manhattoes, but more vulgarly known by the name of Manhattan.

A History of New York 1809

Stuyvesant, bearing the great beaver of the Manhattoes.

Washington Irving 2004

Manhattoes plucked up new courage at the sound, or, rather, they rallied at the voice of their leader, of whom they stood more in awe than of all the Swedes in Christendom.

Washington Irving 2004

There now is your insular city of the Manhattoes, belted round by wharves as Indian isles by coral reefs — commerce surrounds it with her surf.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Hitherto it had gone by the original Indian name Manna-hata, or, as some will have it, "The Manhattoes"; but this was now decried as savage and heathenish, and as tending to keep up the memory of the pagan brood that originally possessed it.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

The men of the Manhattoes plucked up new courage at the sound, or, rather, they rallied at the voice of their leader, of whom they stood more in awe than of all the Swedes in

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Mr. Irving insisted that the great historian of the Manhattoes was not the vulgar old fellow they would keep putting on the omnibuses and ice-carts; but that, though quaint and old-fashioned, he was still of gentle blood.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860 Various

His faithful squire Van Corlear trudged valiantly at his heels, with his trumpet gorgeously bedecked with red and yellow ribbons, the remembrances of his fair mistress at the Manhattoes.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

Pelts of Esopus, together with the Van Rippers and the Van Brunts, bearing down all before them; then the Suy Dams and the Van Dams, pressing forward with many a blustering oath at the head of the warriors of Hell-Gate, clad in their thunder-and-lightning gaberdines; and lastly the standard-bearers and body-guards of Peter Stuyvesant, bearing the great beaver of the Manhattoes.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

THE PRECEDING Tale is given, almost in the precise words in which I heard it related at a Corporation meeting of the ancient city of Manhattoes, at which were present many of its sagest and most illustrious burghers.

Postscript 1917