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New Netherland ( Dutch: Nieuw Nederland) [5] was a 17th-century colonial province [6] of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod.
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New Netherland culture characterized the region (today's...
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New Netherland ( Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch) was the 17th...
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New Netherland ( Dutch: Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Dutch Republic located on the east coast of what is now the United States of America. The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to Cape Cod.
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What was New Netherland? The colony of New Netherland was located in what are now parts of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, and Delaware. Dutch settlers laid the foundation for cities that still exist today. Beverwijck, once a center of the fur trade, is now Albany, New York.
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Henry Hudson first explored the area that would become New Netherland. Although he was English, Hudson worked for a private corporation, the Dutch East India Company. In 1609, he sailed from the Netherlands to North America and up what the Dutch called the North River.
New Netherland was a 17th-century Dutch Republic colony on North America’s northeast coast. The Dutch claimed and settled areas now part of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Henry Hudson.
