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Colen Donck (Yonkers, New York) Map based on Adriaen Blocks 1614 expedition to New Netherland, featuring the first use of the name. ...
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Dutch Revival buildings from the early 20th century on Pearl Street in lower Manhattan recall the Dutch origins of the city. ...
View of Harlem from Morningside Heights overlooking Morningside Park Lenox Avenue looking south from the corner of 124th Street. ...
The Washington Square Arch Greenwich Village (pronounced Grennich Village; also called simply the Village) is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern) Manhattan in New York City. ...
Beverwyck was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherland that was to become Albany, New York when the English took control of the colony in 1664. ...
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Still existing symbols of New York Worlds Fair are in Flushing, Queens. ...
Middleburgh is a village located in Schoharie County, New York. ...
Jamaica, a neighborhood in Queens, New York City, was settled as a town by the English under Dutch rule in 1656 in New Netherland. ...
Afternoon by the Sea (Gravesend Bay), a pastel by William Merritt Chase, ca 1888 shows traditional catboats in the bay and the Navesink Highlands across Lower New York Bay. ...
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Flatlands is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ...
Midwood is a neighborhood located in the south central part of Borough of Brooklyn, New York, roughly half way between Prospect Park and Coney Island. ...
New Utrecht was a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. ...
Bushwick is a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn, New York, USA. Founded in 1661 by Governor Peter Stuyvesant as Boswijck, it is the site of some of the earliest settlements in Brooklyn that date to the middle of the 17th century. ...
Old New Castle Courthouse. ...
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Table of Fortification, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ...
Fort Amsterdam was the name of the Dutch fort that was constructed on the southern tip of Manhattan in 1625. ...
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A patroon was a proprietor of a tract of land in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America. ...
Rensselaerwyck is the name of a colonial estate that was located in what is now New York, USA. The estate was land purchased by Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, a Dutch merchant and investor in the Dutch West India Company. ...
Yonkers is the fourth largest city in the U.S. state of New York (behind Rochester) and the largest city in Westchester County, with a population of 196,086 (according to the 2000 census). ...
| Director-Generals of New Netherland:
Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-1625)
Willem Verhulst (1625-26)
Peter Minuit (1626-33)
Wouter van Twiller (1633-38)
Willem Kieft (1638-47)
Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64) This is a list of Directors-General, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland in Dutch) in North America. ...
Willem Verhulst was the second director of the Dutch West India Company. ...
Peter Minuit (1589 – August 5, 1638) was a Walloon from Wesel, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Cleves. ...
Wouter Van Twiller was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the director-general of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1633 until 1638. ...
Willem Kieft (1597-1647) was a Dutch merchant and director general of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam, later New York City, was the primary settlement), from 1638 until 1647. ...
Peter Stuyvesant circa 1660 Petrus Stuyvesant (born c. ...
| Influential people
Adriaen van der Donck
Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Brant van Slichtenhorst
Cornelis van Tienhoven Portrait of Adriaen van der Donck Adriaen Cornelissen van der Donck (ca. ...
Kiliaen Van Rensselaer (1585 - 1643) was a Dutch merchant who was heavily involved in the Colonial American trade market. ...
| | Cornelis Jacobsz May, sometimes spelled Mey or Meij was a Dutch explorer, captain and fur trader, and namesake of Cape May, Cape May County, and the city of Cape May, New Jersey, so named first in 1620. The Cape May Point Beach, NJ Cape May is the northern cape of Delaware Bay along the Atlantic coast of the United States. ...
Cape May County is a county located in the state of New Jersey. ...
Cape May City highlighted in Cape May County. ...
Events September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ...
May was from the city of Hoorn and sailed first in the Mauritius River or "Hudson's river" (so referred to first by Adriaen Block in 1613) in 1614 where an agreement was made among various competing traders whereunder the explorer Adriaen Block. On October 11, 1614, May became a party to the New Netherland Company which received an exclusive patent from the States General for four voyages to be undertaken for three years to territories discovered between the 40th and 45th parallels at the exclusion of all other Dutch (until January 1618). See also explorations, sea explorers, astronaut, conquistador, travelogue, the History of Science and Technology and Biography. ...
From August until November 1616, the company tried unsuccessfully to obtain a new patent for a territory situated between the 38th and 40th parallels (i.e., the Delaware Bay area) which in 1614, 1615 and 1616 had been surveyed by Cornelis Hendricksz from Monnikendam on the ship "Onrust". On behalf of the successor company of the New Netherland Company, Cornelis Jacobsz May had explored and surveyed the Delaware Bay on the ship named Blijde Boodschap (en. Joyful Message) from which he carried on trade with the Indians there in 1620.
Two of the six business partners of the ships Blijde Boodschap and Bever which focused on exploration and trade in the Zuidt Rivier or Delaware River, were Thijmen Jacobsz Hinlopen and Samuel Godijn. Cape Hinlopen in Delaware is named after the former who was a prominent trader in corn from the Baltic carrying on trade to Genoa and Portugal. He was an insurer and also a director of the Northern Company. Samuel Godyn had Godyn's Bay named after him, now renamed New York Bay. Also spelled Godijn or Godin, he was one of the first patroons in New Netherland as well as a director of the West India Company and of the Northern Company. Delaware River Watershed The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic coast of the United States. ...
Cornelis Jacobsz May, however, was unable to trade in the South River (Delaware River) at the exclusion of competing Dutch companies. Though the competing Dutch companies were eventually able to reach agreement in New Netherland, discord arose again which was settled, finally, by a judgment of arbitrators at Amsterdam on December 23, 1623. The 38th and 39th parallels region came under the final jurisdiction of the Dutch West India Company with the delivery of the first settlers to New Netherland in 1624. May was the captain of the ship New Netherland who delivered the first boat load of colonists to New Netherland on Governors Island in June of that year. Having so transformed the New Netherland territory to a province, he was named the province's first director. Map based on Adriaen Blocks 1614 expedition to New Netherland, featuring the first use of the name. ...
Governors Island is a 172 acre (696,000 m²) island in Upper New York Bay, approximately one half mile from the southern tip of Manhattan, of which it is legally a part, in New York City. ...
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