New Netherland
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New Netherland was a colony of the Dutch Republic located on the East Coast of what is now the United States. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod. Settlements were
The West India House in Amsterdam, headquarters of the Dutch West India Company from 1623 to 1647
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, site of Peter Stuyvesant's grave
Image of Nieuw Amsterdam made in 1664, the year that it was surrendered to English forces under Richard Nicolls
The original New Netherland settlements at Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Jersey City have grown into the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States
Province of New York
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The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. It extended from Long Island on the Atlantic, up the Hudso
New Netherland
…Population • Estimate 350 (in 1630) 4,301 (in 1650) 9,000 (in 1674) Currency Dutch rijksdaalder, leeuwendaalder Preceded by Succeeded by Lenapehoking Province of New York Province of New Jersey Province of Pennsylvania Delaware Colony Connecticut Colony Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Today part of…
The Van Bergen farm near Albany, New York in 1733