well-to-do-set

Updated: September 30, 2025

It was to this well-to-do-set that Nicasius De Sille belonged, and after the going of Steendam he became the only literary man in the colony. He also had come over in the service of the Dutch West India Company, but in a far different capacity from Steendam.

Charles Hemstreet - Literary New York: Its Landmarks and Associations