This is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch)...
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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...
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Peter Minuit (redirect from Purchase of Manhattan)
North American colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1631, and 3rd Governor of New Netherland. He founded the Swedish colony of New Sweden on the Delaware...
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of New Netherland occurred in 1664 as an English expedition led by Richard Nicolls that arrived in New York Harbor effected a peaceful capture of New...
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under Richard Nicolls ousted the Dutch from control of New Netherland (present-day New York, New Jersey, and Delaware), and the territory was divided...
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colony New Netherland of the Dutch West India Company in 1664 in a bloodless coup in the name of the Duke of York. The colony was renamed New York, and...
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was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city and state capital Albany, New York developed near this site. It was built...
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Peter Stuyvesant (category Directors of New Netherland)
director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647 until it was ceded provisionally to the English in 1664, after which it was split into New...
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Cornelius Jacobsen May (category Directors of New Netherland)
and fur trader. Mey was the first director of New Netherland and was stationed at Fort Amsterdam. Mey was the captain of the ship Nieu Nederlandt, which...
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Willem Kieft (category Directors of New Netherland)
and the Director of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam was the capital) from 1638 to 1647. Willem Kieft was appointed to the rank of director by the...
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Wouter van Twiller (category Directors of New Netherland)
buried August 29, 1654) was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the fourth Director of New Netherland. He governed from 1632 until 1638, succeeding...
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southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland. The initial trading factory gave rise to the settlement...
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Willem Verhulst (category Directors of New Netherland)
Willem van Hulst was an employee of the Dutch West India Company and the second (provisional) Director of the New Netherland colony in 1625–26. Nothing can...
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Anthony Colve (category Directors of New Netherland)
was a Dutch captain of Marines and the Governor-General of New Netherland during a brief restoration of Dutch rule in New Netherland during the Third Anglo-Dutch...
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patroonship on the west bank of the Hudson River in New Netherland, the seventeenth century North American colonial province of the Dutch Empire. The homestead...
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settlement on the west bank of the North River (Hudson River) that was part of the seventeenth-century province of New Netherland in what would become the...
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Bergen was a part of the 17th century province of New Netherland, in the area in northeastern New Jersey along the Hudson and Hackensack Rivers that would...
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New Netherlanders (also known as New Dutch) were residents of New Netherland, the seventeenth-century colonial outpost of the Republic of the Seven United...
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was governed by the Director of New Netherland. Following the 1664 creation of the British Province of New York, newly renamed New York City was run by...
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of Spanish governors of New Mexico List of colonial governors of Texas Director of New Netherland This article includes a governors-related list of lists...
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Fort Amsterdam (redirect from Fort Amsterdam (New Amsterdam))
then British/Colonial rule of the colony of New Netherland and thereafter the Province of New York. The fort was the nucleus of the settlement on the island...
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Swedish). In November 1654, the directors of the Dutch West India Company ordered the Director-General of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, to "drive" the...
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transplanting Dutch culture, the directors of New Netherland were largely unconcerned with the ethnic and racial balance of the community. The economic activity...
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Sebastiaen Jansen Krol (category Directors of New Netherland)
Jans(s)en Crol or Crull; 1595, Harlingen – 14 March 1674) was Director of New Netherland from 1632 to 1633. When he was 10, Krol's family moved from Friesland...
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Nieuw-Nederland, or New Netherland, was the seventeenth-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on northeastern coast of North America...
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Salad (redirect from Dressing of Salad)
can of salad oil at 1.10 florins" and "an anker of wine vinegar at 16 florins". In a 1665 letter to the Director of New Netherland from the Island of Curaçao...
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New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th century colony of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of...
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Adriaen van der Donck (redirect from Remonstrance of New Netherland)
1618 – 1655) was a lawyer and landowner in New Netherland after whose honorific Jonkheer the city of Yonkers, New York, is named. Although he was not, as...
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become the state of New York was settled by European colonists as part of the New Netherland colony (parts of present-day New York, New Jersey, Connecticut...
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Kiliaen van Rensselaer (merchant) (redirect from Kiliaen van Rensselaer (first patroon of Rensselaerswyck))
was one of the founders and directors of the Dutch West India Company, being instrumental in the establishment of New Netherland. He was one of the first...
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