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Willem Verhulst. Willem Verhulst or Willem van Hulst was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the second (provisional) Director of the New Netherland colony in 1625–26. Nothing can be verified about his life before and after this period.
The West India Company removed Kieft from his post in 1647 and replaced him with Peter Stuyvesant, the last director-general of New Netherland before the colony was taken over by the English in 1664. This handwritten journal by an unknown Dutch colonist, from the manuscript collections of the National Library of the Netherlands, is an important ...
Dutch Colonial architecture (New Netherland) Dutch colonial architecture is the type of architecture prevalent in the construction of homes, commercial buildings, and outbuildings in areas settled by the Dutch from the early 17th to early 19th century in the area encompassing the former Dutch colony of New Netherland in what is now the United ...
The New Netherland Institute (formerly Friends of the New Netherland Project) is a non-profit organization created to support the translation and publication of 17th-century Dutch documents from the period of the Dutch colonization of New Netherland . This effort began when the New Netherland Project was established in 1974 by the New York ...
1 day ago · Nieuw Nederland) war ein von der Republik der Sieben Vereinigten Niederlande im 17. Jahrhundert beanspruchtes Territorium an der Ostküste Nordamerikas. English: New Netherland (nl. Nieuw Nederland) was the territory claimed by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the eastern coast of North America in the 17th century.
Vriessendael, New Netherland. Vriessendael was a patroonship on the west bank of the Hudson River in New Netherland, the seventeenth century North American colonial province of the Dutch Empire. The homestead or plantation was located on a tract of about 500 acres (2.0 km 2) about an hour's walk north of Communipaw [1] at today's Edgewater .
Hendrick Christiaensen was a ship captain and trader employed by the Van Tweenhuysen Company of Amsterdam. [1] In 1611 Christiaensen paid two visits to Manhattan in his ship Fortuyn, including one with fellow explorer Adriaen Block in his Tyger. Upon his return to the Dutch Republic in 1612, he brought back with him two young Native Americans ...
