page_title: New Netherland settlements
section_title: Reformed Congregations pre-1776 (selection)
hierarchical_section_title: New Netherland settlements / Reformed Congregations pre-1776 (selection)
caption_attribution_description: English: Old Dutch Church, Sleepy Hollow, NY
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: 1683 - New Pfaltz   (Huguenot)
  1684 - Sleepy Hollow
  1686 - Hackensack 
  1693 - Acquackanonk  in Passaic
  1694 - Tappan 
  1699 - Brick in Marlboro 
  1700 - Second River  in Belleville
  1703 - Six Mile Run 
  1710 - Ponds  in Oakland
  1716 - Claverack
  1716 - Fishkill 
  1716 - Poughkeepsie 
  1717 - New Brunswick
  1717 - Schaghticoke  
  1719 - North Branch
  1720 - Fairfield
  1723 - Herkimer  (German Palatines)
  1724 - Schraalenburgh now Dumont
  1725 - Paramus
  1725 - Stone Arabia in Palatine (German Palatines)
  1727 - Harlingen 
  1731 - Rhinebeck 
  1736 - Pompton Plains 
  1740 - Ramapo in Mahwah
  1750 - Canajoharie 
  1750 - Clarkstown 
  1755 - Totowa   in Paterson
  1756 - Schodack
  1756 - Montivlle 
  1758 - Caughnawaga now Fonda 
  1758 - New Hackensack in Town of Wappinger
  1758 - Bedminster 
  1763 - Betlehem
  1765 - Ghent
  1770 - English Neighborhood, now Ridgefield 
  1774 - Kakiat now West New Hempstead
  1776 - Hillsdale
caption: Tarrytown
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