Who founded the new Netherland colony(AKA: New york) and why did they establish it?

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Answer 1

New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam) was the name of the 17th century town which grew outside of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in the New Netherland territory (1614–1674) which was situated between 38 and 42 degrees latitude as a provincial extension of the Dutch Republic since 1624. The province's first settlement was established on Governors Island in 1624 from where Fort Amsterdam was commenced in 1625. Earlier, the harbor and the river had been discovered, explored and charted by an expedition of the Dutch East India Company captained by Henry Hudson in 1609. Subsequently, the territory was surveyed and charted by various private commercial companies on behalf of the States General of the Dutch Republic prior to taking possession as an overseas province in 1624.

The town of New Amsterdam became a city when it received municipal rights in 1653 and was unilaterally reincorporated as New York City in June 1665. The town was founded by New Netherland's second director, Willem Verhulst who, together with his council, selected Manhattan Island as the optimal place for permanent settlement in 1625. They quickly began establishing businesses there, among which was the first brewery in North America.[citation needed] That year, military engineer and surveyor Cryn Fredericksz van Lobbrecht laid out a citadel with Fort Amsterdam as centerpiece. To secure the settlers' property and its surroundings according to Dutch law, Peter Minuit created a deed with the Manhattan Indians in 1626 thus ensuring legal possession of Manhattan.

The city, situated on the strategic, fortifiable southern tip of the island of Manhattan was to maintain New Netherland's provincial integrity by defending river access to the company's fur trade operations in the North River, later named Hudson River. Furthermore, it was entrusted to safeguard the West India Company's exclusive access to New Netherland's other two estuaries; the Delaware River and the Connecticut River. New Amsterdam developed into the largest Dutch colonial settlement in the New Netherland province, now the New York Tri-State region, and remained a Dutch possession until August 1664, when it fell provisionally into the hands of the English.

The Dutch Republic regained it in August 1673 with a fleet of 21 ships, renaming the city "New Orange". New Netherland was ceded permanently to the English in November 1674 in the Treaty of Westminster. The 1625 date of the founding of New Amsterdam is now commemorated in the Official Seal of the City of New York (formerly, the year on the seal was 1664, the year of the provisional Articles of Transfer, ensuring freedom of religion, negotiated with the English by Petrus Stuyvesant and his council).

See: Dutch colonization of the Americas, History of New York City

Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Early Settlement (1609–1625)
1.2 Fort Amsterdam (1625)
1.3 1625–1674
2 Maps of New Amsterdam
3 See also
4 External links
5 References

Answer 2

The Dutch - it was called New Holland at first. I don't know where you got New Netherland - it's redundant.
My source is my brain - sorry, no url's there - just knowledge and common sense.

Answer 3

I believe the person who founded NY was a Netherlander named Peter Stuyvesant. Don't know why. I believe it was purchased of a Native American man for $30.

Answer 4

deez nuts