New Netherland
New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland, Latin: Nova Belgica or Novum Belgium) was a colony of the Dutch Empire from 1614[1] to 1664 and from 1673 to 1674. It was a base for the fur trade, and its capital was New Amsterdam, now New York City. The other important trading post in New Netherland was Fort Orange, now Albany. Most settlers lived in those towns or between them, along the Hudson River, but some lived in distant parts of the colony.
New Netherland was between colonies that England wanted to connect together. During the Anglo-Dutch Wars England sent warships to conquer New Netherland. The Dutch colonists surrendered because they were afraid that the English Royal Navy would destroy their town. The Dutch traded the colony to England for Surinam, in South America, and Run, in the East Indies, which they thought were worth more. The English divided their new colony to make the English colonies of New York and New Jersey. They also gave parts of it to Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland.
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A map based on Adriaen Block's 1614 expedition to New Netherland, featuring the first use of the name. It was created by Dutch cartographers in the Golden Age of Dutch exploration (c. 1590s–1720s) and Netherlandish cartography (c. 1570s–1670s).
A map of New Netherland and New England, with north to the right
The West India House in Amsterdam, headquarters of the Dutch West India Company from 1623 to 1647
The storehouse of the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam, built in 1642, became the headquarters of the board in 1647 because of financial difficulties after the loss of Dutch Brazil.
A map showing the area claimed by the Dutch in North America and several Dutch settlements compared to present-day boundaries
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
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