page_title: New Netherland settlements
section_title: Settlement pre-1674
hierarchical_section_title: New Netherland settlements / Settlement pre-1674
caption_attribution_description: The original en:Castello Plan. Full size photograph of manuscript map in the Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana of Florence, Italy. The Castello plan is the earliest known plan of Amsterdam (so not New Amsterdam, as you can see on the picture), and the only one dating from the Dutch period. The text at the top of the image states: "Image of the city Amsterdam in New Netherland".
context_page_description: New Netherland was the 17th century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory was the land from the Delmarva Peninsula to southern Cape Cod. The settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic states of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, with small outposts in Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Its capital of New Amsterdam was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan on the Upper New York Bay.
  The region was initially explored in 1609 by Henry Hudson on an expedition for the Dutch East India Company. It was later surveyed and charted, and was given its name in 1614. The Dutch named the three main rivers of the province the Zuyd Rivier, the Noort Rivier, and the Versche Rivier. They intended to use them to gain access to the interior, the indigenous population, and the lucrative fur trade.
  International law required discovery, charting, and settlement to perfect a territorial claim. Large scale settlement was rejected in favor of a formula that was working in Asia of establishing factories.
context_section_description: Fort Nassau (1614) on Castle Eylandt in the North River, now Westerlo Island
  Fort Nassau (1621) on the Zuyd River, dismantled and relocated in (1651), now Gloucester City
  Noten Eylant (1624) at the mouth of the North River, now Governors Island
  Fort Orange (1624) to replace Fort Nassau on the North River, now Albany
  Fort Wilhelmus (1624), on the Zuyd Rivier (disbanded)
  Roduins or Rodenbergh (factorij-1620s?), now New Haven
  Kievets Hoek (1624), now Old Saybrook (disbanded)
  New Amsterdam (1624), now Lower Manhattan
  Fort Amsterdam (1625), at the tip of the isle of Manhattan
  Rensselaerswyck (1630), patroonship Kiliaen van Rensselaer on the North River, now Capital District
  Pavonia (1630) on the North River, attempted patroonship of Michael Pauw, now Hudson County
  Zwaanendael (1631), on the Zuyd Rivier, soon after plundered by the local population., now Lewes
  Fort Huis de Goed Hoop (1633) near the Fresh River, now Hartford
  Communipaw (1634), as Jan de Lacher's Hoeck, now Liberty State Park
  Noortwijk (1630s), now Greenwich Village
  Connecticut Colony (1636), by New Englanders near Fort Huis de Goed Hoop
  Quetenesse (1636), now Dutch Island in Rhode Island, and possibly nearby Fort Ninigret
  Nieuwe Haarlem (1637) and (1652) municipal charter
  Pelham (1637), a New Englander's homestead
  New Haven Colony (1638) New Englander towns found at mouth of Quinnipiac River
  Fort Christina (1638), first of Swedish settlements on the Zuyd Rivier, Fort Altena in 1655, now Wilmington
  Broncks (1639)  now The Bronx, settled by Jonas Bronck
  Paulus Hoeck (1639), a patent at Pavonia
  Staaten Eylandt (1639), an attempted patroonship of Cornelius Meyln ]
  Southhold (1640)
  Achter Col (1641), an attempted patroonship on the Hackensack River
  Vriessendael (1640), homestead of David Pietersen de Vries, now Edgewater
  Greenwich (1642), English manor under Dutch jurisdiction
  Vriedelandt (1642), Englishman John Throckmorton settles, now Throg's Neck 
  Maspat (1642), under a charter granted to Rev. Francis Doughty, now Maspeth 
  Beverwijck (1640s) a trading post surrounded by Rensselaerswyck, (1652) municipal charter 
  Peekskill (possibly early 1640s, formalized in 1684)
  Hemsteede (1643), New England settlement on Lange Eylandt
  Hoboken (1643), a lease at Pavonia
  Eastchester (1643) homestead of Anne Hutchinson's family and followers
  Gravesend (1645) settled under Dutch patent by English Anabaptist Lady Deborah Moody and followers
  Vlissingen (1645) under Dutch patent, mostly English colonists, many of them Quakers, now Flushing
  Breuckelen (1646), now Brooklyn Heights
  Colen Donck (1646), homestead of Jonkheer Adriaen van der Donck, now Yonkers
  Constable Hook (1646) patent
  Nieuw Amersfoort (1647), now Flatlands
  Minkakwa (1647), now Caven Point
  Weehawken (1647), a land patent
  Fort Beversreede (1648) on the Schuylkill River
  De Bouwerij (1649) homestead of Petrus Stuyvesant
  Fort Casimir (1651) now New Castle
  Midwout (1652), now Midwood
  Esopus (1652) now Ulster County 
  Nieuw Utrecht (1652), or New Utrecht
  Oester Baai (1653), at the 1650 border between New England and New Netherland, now Oyster Bay
  Pelham Manor (1654), Englishman Thomas Pell's purchase New Netherland/Siwanoy territory
  Pamrapo (1654) Achter Col patents, now Bayonne
  Nieuw Amstel (1655), now New Castle
  Rustdorp (1656) land patent, now Jamaica
  Wiltwyk  (1657), now Kingston
  Poughkeepsie (1650s), by Barent Baltus
  Bergen (1660), now Hudson County
  Rye (1660), land purchase by English settlers 
  Oude Dorpe (1661), now Old Town on Staten Island
  Boswijck (1661), now Bushwick
  Schenectady (1661) 
  Claverack (1662), now Hudson
  Plockhoy Zwaanendael (1663), by Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy
  English Neighborhood (1668), eastern Bergen County
  Rotterdam (1670), as Woestina 
  Nieuw Dorp (1671), now New Dorp
caption: (1660) New Amsterdam
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