Dutch New Amsterdam
Also called: New Netherland, Nieuw Amsterdam
The Dutch West India Company founded New Amsterdam on Manhattan as the centre of its New Netherland colony. The English seized it in 1664 and renamed it New York.
Johannes Vingboons (cartographer), Jacques Cortelyou (surveyor) · Public domain · Source
Grown rich on seaborne trade, the Dutch opened the colony of New Netherland along the Hudson River to buy furs. In 1626 the director Peter Minuit is said to have bought Manhattan from the Lenape for goods worth sixty guilders, and New Amsterdam at its southern tip became a port where people of many nations gathered. When an English fleet appeared in 1664, Director Peter Stuyvesant surrendered without a fight, and the town was renamed New York after the Duke of York. It was in these years (1653) that Hendrick Hamel and the crew of a Dutch East India Company ship were wrecked on Jeju Island and held in Joseon.