Director of New Netherland - wikipedia Director of New Netherland New Netherland series Exploration Fortifications : Fort Amsterdam Fort Nassau ( North ) Fort Orange Fort Nassau ( South ) Fort Goede Hoop De Wal Fort Casimir Fort Altena Fort Wilhelmus Fort Beversreede Fort Nya Korsholm De Rondout Settlements : Noten Eylandt Nieuw Amsterdam Rensselaerswijck Nieuw Haarlem Beverwijck Wiltwijk Bergen Pavonia Vriessendael Achter Col Vlissingen Oude Dorpe Colen Donck Greenwich Heemstede Rustdorp Gravesende Breuckelen Nieuw Amersfoort Midwout Nieuw Utrecht Boswijk Swaanendael Nieuw Amstel Nieuw Dorp The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions Cornelius Jacobsen May ( 1620 -- 25 ) Willem Verhulst ( 1625 -- 26 ) Peter Minuit ( 1626 -- 32 ) Sebastiaen Jansen Krol ( 1632 -- 33 ) Wouter van Twiller ( 1633 -- 38 ) Willem Kieft ( 1638 -- 47 ) Peter Stuyvesant ( 1647 -- 64 ) People of New Netherland New Netherlander Twelve Men Eight Men Nine Men Flushing Remonstrance 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 ) in North America. Only the last, Peter Stuyvesant, held the title of Director General. As the colony grew, citizens advisory boards - known as the Twelve Men, Eight Men, and Nine Men - exerted more influence on the director and thus affairs of province. There were New Netherland settlements in what later became the US states of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, with short - lived outposts in areas of today 's Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania. The capital, New Amsterdam, became the city of New York when the New Netherlanders provisionally ceded control of the colony to the English who renamed the city and the rest of the province in June 1665. During the restitution to Dutch rule from August 1673 to November 1674, when New Netherland was under the jurisdiction of the City of Amsterdam, the first Dutch governor, Anthony Colve, was appointed. Contents 1 List of Directors 1.1 From 1624 -- 1664 1.2 Restoration of the colony, 1673 - 1674 2 See also 3 References List of Directors From 1624 -- 1664 Portrait Director or Director - General Took office Left office Notes Cornelius Jacobsen May ( fl. 1600s ) 1624 1625 Explored Delaware Bay, New York Bay, Hudson River. Established base at Nut Island ( Noten Eylant ) and outposts including Fort Nassau on Delaware River. Cape May was named in his honour. Willem Verhulst ( or van der Hulst ) ( fl. 1600s ) 1625 1626 Initiated construction of Fort Amsterdam on southern tip of Manhattan Island, and Fort Wilhelmus on the Delaware River. Unpopular with the colonists, he was quickly replaced. Peter Minuit ( 1580 -- 1638 ) 1626 1631 Purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans on May 24, 1626 for 60 Dutch guilders worth of goods. Sebastiaen Jansen Krol ( 1595 -- 1674 ) 1632 1633 Wouter van Twiller ( 1606 -- 1654 ) 1633 1638 Previously a Dutch West India Company warehouse clerk, used family connections to the Rensselaer family to gain appointment purchased Nut Island ( Noten Eylant ), later called Governor 's Island from Canarsee tribe for two axeheads, a string of beads and iron nails Lost the colony 's claim of the Connecticut River valley to New England settlers Pushed back encroaching Virginia settlers who tried to settle Delaware River valley Willem Kieft ( 1597 -- 1647 ) 1638 1647 Attempted to drive out Lenape tribe. Attacks on Pavonia and Corlears Hook, led to Kieft 's War. Fired by the Dutch West India Company in 1647. Died at sea near Swansea, Wales on September 27, 1647 while returning to Amsterdam aboard the Princess Amelia. Peter Stuyvesant ( c. 1612 - 1672 ) 1647 1664 Authorized charter for Communipaw and Bergen ( now Jersey City ) in 1660. New Amsterdam, Pavonia, and other settlements attacked by the Susquehannocks during the brief Peach Tree War ( 1655 ) obtained victory the Esopus Wars against the Lenape and Esopus tribes Surrendered New Netherland to the British. Also the Director of Curaçao ( 1642 -- 1664 ) Restoration of the colony, 1673 - 1674 In 1673, during the Third Anglo - Dutch War, the Dutch were able to recapture New Amsterdam ( renamed `` New York '' by the British ) under Admiral Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and Captain Anthony Colve. Evertsen renamed the city `` New Orange. '' Evertsen returned to the Netherlands in July 1674, and was accused of disobeying his orders. Evertsen had been instructed not to retake New Amsterdam but instead to conquer the British colonies of Saint Helena and Cayenne ( now French Guiana ). In 1674, the Dutch were compelled to relinquish New Amsterdam to the British under the terms of the Second Treaty of Westminster. Portrait Governor Took office Left office Notes Anthony Colve ( fl. 1600s ) 1673 1674 Colve 's authority was brief, starting with the taking of New York, but ended on February 9, 1674 with the signing of the Treaty of Westminster, which restored the colony to the English. News did not reach the New World of the treaty 's terms until late in the year. See also Johan Björnsson Printz List of colonial governors of Delaware List of colonial governors of New Jersey List of colonial governors of New York Dutch colonization of the Americas List of mayors of New York City History of New York City References Jump up ^ Burrows, Edwin G., and Wallace, Mike. Gotham : A History of New York City to 1898 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1998 ), xivff. Jump up ^ Merwick, Donna. The Shame and the Sorrow : Dutch - Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland Early American Series. ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 ). Jump up ^ `` Journal of New Netherland 1647. Written in the Years 1641, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1645, and 1646 ''. World Digital Library. 1641 -- 1647. Retrieved 2013 - 08 - 01. ^ Jump up to : Shorto, Russell. The Island at the Center of the World : The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America. ( New York City : Vintage Books, 2004 ). Jump up ^ Otto, Paul. The Dutch - Munsee Encounter in America : The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley. ( Oxford / New York : Berghahn Books, 2006 ), 152 ; and Kraft, Herbert C. The Lenape : Archaeology, History, and Ethnography. ( Newark, New Jersey : New Jersey Historical Society, 1986 ), 241. Jump up ^ Roosevelt, Theodore. `` IV. New Amsterdam becomes New York The Beginning of English Rule. 1664 - 1674, '' in New York : A Sketch of the City 's Social, Political, and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent Times. ( New York : Charles Scribner & Sons, 1906 ). Jump up ^ Barrevald, Dirk J. From New Amsterdam to New York : The Founding of New York by the Dutch in July 1625. ( Lincoln, Nebraska : Writers Club Press, 2001 ), 248. Jump up ^ Shomette, Donald G. and Haslach, Robert D. Raid on America : The Dutch Naval Campaign of 1672 - 1674. ( Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, 1988 ), 73, 139 - 151 ; De Waard, Cornelis. De Zeeuwsche expeditie naar de West onder Cornelis Evertsen den Jonge, 1672 - 1674. ( The Hague : Nijhoff, 1928 ). ( in Dutch ) Jump up ^ Westdorp, Martina. `` Behouden of opgeven ? Het lot van de nederlandse kolonie Nieuw - Nederland na de herovering op de Engelsen in 1673 '' Archived 2008 - 06 - 30 at the Wayback Machine. in De wereld van Peter Stuyvesant ( in Dutch ). Retrieved 21 March 2013. Jump up ^ Prak, Maarten. The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century : The Golden Age. ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005 ), 116. 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Question: who was the director general for the new netherland colony starting in 1647
Answer: Peter Stuyvesant