New Netherland

American  

noun

1. a Dutch colony in North America (1613–64), comprising the area along the Hudson River and the lower Delaware River. By 1669 all of the land comprising this colony was taken over by England. New Amsterdam.

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New Netherland British  

/ ˈnɛðələnd /

noun

1. a Dutch North American colony of the early 17th century, centred on the Hudson valley. Captured by the English in 1664, it was divided into New York and New Jersey

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New Netherland

Downing’s Dutch connections also facilitated the transformation of New Netherland into the British province of New York in 1664.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 11, 2026

The first was to wrest Manhattan Island from the control of the Dutch, whose colony of New Netherland had existed for 40 years.

From Salon ● Mar. 15, 2025

Two years later, a second group purchased Manhattan Island from the local Indians and established New Amsterdam as the capital of New Netherland.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

Though founded as New Netherland, New York was otherwise emblematic of the seventeenth-century English empire.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The Council was headed by Captain David de Vries, whose portrait with its pointed chin, high forehead, and keen eyes, justifies his reputation as the ablest man in New Netherland.

From Dutch and English on the Hudson A Chronicle of Colonial New York by Goodwin, Maud Wilder