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New Netherland, New York > 
1609 : Henry Hudson, in command of the East India Company ship Halve Maen, explores from Delaware Bay to the upper Hudson as far as present-day Albany.
1614 : The name New Netherland first appears in an official document; New Netherland Company licensed by the States General; fur trading post Fort Nassau established on Castle Island, present day Port of Albany.
New Netherland was a colony founded by the Dutch on the east coast of North America in the seventeenth century, which vanished when the English wrested control of it in 1664, turning its capital, New Amsterdam, into New York City. It extended from Albany, New York, in the north to Delaware in the south. It encompassed parts of what are now the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut and Delaware.
New Netherland got underway at about the same time the Pilgrims were settling Cape Cod and the Jamestown colony was establishing itself in Virginia, but you wouldn't know that from most history books.
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Hudson, Found New York - 1609
Henry Hudson was an English explorer and navigator who explored parts of the Arctic Ocean and northeastern North America. The Hudson River, Hudson Strait, and Hudson Bay... |
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VOC, Dutch East India Company
March 20, 1602, the representatives of the provinces of the Dutch republic, granted a the Dutch East India Company (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC) a monopoly on... |
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Stuyvesant, Governor New York - 1646
Peter Stuyvesant, Dutch Governor of New York (the New Netherlands). Born in Holland in 1602; died in New York city in August, 1672. He was the son of a clergyman of Fries... |
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New York, Colonization
As early as 1597 the Dutch made voyages to the West Indies, but it was left for an Englishman in the employ of the Netherlands to make the one and only discovery in the N... |
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