New York and 

 Tobacco 



.11 1590, when the use of leaf tobacco 

 was beginning in England, Hollanders were already 

 smoking tobacco in clay pipes and growing the plant 

 on a large scale. When many of these Hollanders came 

 to the "New World" they brought their pipe smoking 

 custom with them. By the time New Amsterdam was 

 settled in 1625, pipe smoking had become common in 

 the area which George Washington later referred to as 

 the "seat of empire"— New York. 



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