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

Albany, like New York City, originated in the colony of New Netherland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

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

England had taken the Dutch colony of New Netherland in 1664 and a treaty of 1667 had formalized its new status.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

The year 1625 marked an important event, the birth of a little daughter in the household of Jan Joris Rapaelje, the "first-born Christian daughter in New Netherland."

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