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New Netherland Company

New Yorker: Everything | 1 week ago

Yoni Brenner: Mannahatta.

...overflowing with wampum beads, duffel cloth, and other assorted goods. PETER MINUIT, the director-general of New Netherland, removes his hat and bows deeply. PETER MINUIT: (in Dutch)...

Wikipedia | 1 month ago

New Netherland

...of the patroonship in Esopus country. Kieft's War and the Remonstrance of New Netherland Willem Kieft was Director New Netherland from 1638 until 1647. Though the colony had grown...

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New Netherland settlements

...Republic, awarded the newly formed Dutch West India Company a trade monopoly for the region, and in 1624 New Netherland became a province of the Dutch Republic. Initially the South...

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Pavonia, New Netherland

Reprint of 1650 map of New Netherland Pavonia was a settlement on the west bank of the Hudson River that was part of the 17th century province of New Netherland in what would become...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Fortifications of New Netherland

...line of present-day Wall Street. Frequently in need of repair, the wall had been abandoned by 1699]] New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the seventeenth century colonial...

Wikipedia | 2 months ago

Bergen, New Netherland

Bergen was a part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, in the area in northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers that would become contemporary Hudson and...

Wikipedia | 3 months ago

New Netherland Company

In order to maximize their profits these merchants decided to form the New Netherland Company and on October 11, 1614 they successfully petitioned the Estates-General for a charter of...

Times Union | 3 months ago

From Albany to Amsterdam, family ties cross years of history

...New York. The area of West Friesland (sounds like freeze-lund), which includes Hoorn, played an important role in New Netherland's development, museum director Ad Geerdink said, and...

After that provisional relinquishment of New Netherland, Stuyvesant reported to his superiors that he "had endeavored to promote the increase of population, agriculture and commerce...the flourishing condition which might have been more flourishing if the now afflicted inhabitants had been protected by a suitable garrison...and had been helped with the long sought for settlement of the boundary, or in default thereof had they been seconded with the oft besought reinforcement of men and ships against the continual troubles, threats, encroachments and invasions of the English neighbors and government of Hartford Colony, our too powerful enemies."

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Wikipedia | 3 months ago

Director-General of New Netherland

...is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch) in North America. The largest settlement...

Times Union | 4 months ago

Celebrating religious freedom

...of their first congregation. It came into being -- despite being forbidden -- in the Dutch Reformed colony of New Netherland. The first known Lutheran permanent settler any place...

Wikipedia | 7 months ago

Vriessendael, New Netherland

...by Bergen County Historical Society Vriessendael was a patroonship on the west bank of the Hudson River in New Netherland, the seventeenth century North American colonial province of...

New York Times | 10 months ago

Exhibition Review 'Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson': Voyaging Up the Hudson to Rediscover the Dutch

...the Dutch to claim land stretching from contemporary Delaware to Connecticut, a colony that became known as New Netherland. But the exhibition makes the case that Dutch rule, which ended in...