New Netherland

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.

New Netherland

/ 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

Example Sentences

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

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In 1664, England’s King Charles II granted an area of land on the East Coast of present-day North America known as New Netherland to his brother James, the Duke of York.

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In 1641, a Dutchman in what was then New Netherland discovered that his hogs had been slain.

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However in the 1630s New Netherland began to feel pressure from all sides from the French, British, and the Swedish.

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The history of this spot possibly extends even earlier: a checkpoint was set up close to this site in 1673, when the Dutch briefly retook New Netherland from the English.

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