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

The Dutch West India Company also founded New Netherland, North America’s first major mid-Atlantic colony, by settling 30 families there in 1624.

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

Little Sarah Rapaelje, "the first-born Christian daughter in New Netherland," was soon surrounded by a circle of boys and girls.

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