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New Netherland, territory included in a commercial grant by the government of Holland to the Dutch West India Company Dutch West India Company, trading and colonizing company, chartered by the States-General of the Dutch republic in 1621 and organized in 1623. Through its agency New Netherland was founded. ..... Click the link for more information. in 1621. Colonists were settled along the Hudson River region; in 1624 the first permanent settlement was established at Fort Orange (now Albany, N.Y.). The principal settlement in the tract after 1625 was New Amsterdam (later New York City) at the southern end of Manhattan island, which was purchased from Native Americans in 1626. Colonization proceeded slowly, hampered by trouble with the native people, poor administration, and rivalry with New England settlers. After 1655 the former territory of New Sweden New Sweden, Swedish colony (1638–55), on the Delaware River; included parts of what are now Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. With the support of Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna, Admiral Klas Fleming (a Finn), and Peter Minuit (a Dutchman), the New ..... Click the link for more information. , along the lower Delaware River, was also part of the colony. In 1664 the colony was taken by the English, who divided most of it into the two colonies of New York and New Jersey. BibliographySee R. Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America (2004). New Netherland a Dutch North American colony of the early 17th century, centred on the Hudson valley. Captured by the English in 1664, it was divided into New York and New Jersey How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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She also observes that they were "the most stable element of the New Netherland working class and population. September 8, 1664--On this day, British soldiers seized the Dutch colony of New Netherland and its capital city New Amsterdam and renamed both for the duke of York. Three focus on the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Netherland (New York), two on the eighteenth century, in Pennsylvania and Upper Canada, and one on Vermont's rape law in the last part of the nineteenth century. |
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