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New Netherland Project to translate and publish 17th century Dutch documents about the colony; Congregation Shearith Israel, Jewish synagogue founded in the colony in 1655; First Shearith Israel Graveyard, the only remaining 17th century structure in Manhattan. Dutch American, an inhabitant of the United States of whole or partial Dutch ancestry
The New Netherland Institute (formerly Friends of the New Netherland Project) is a non-profit organization created to support the translation and publication of 17th-century Dutch documents from the period of the Dutch colonization of New Netherland. This effort began when the New Netherland Project was established in 1974 by the New York State ...
New Netherland (Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch) 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 Holland Society is known for initiating projects such as the New Netherland Project, which translates and publishes 17th-century records from the New York State Archives. [1] Membership in the society is open to both males and females, who are directly descended from an ancestor who lived in New Netherland before or during 1675. [2]
[1] [2] [3] Shorto's research for the book relied greatly on the work of the New Netherland Project, now known as the New Netherland Research Center, [4] as well as the New Netherland Institute. [5] Shorto has been the New Netherland Institute's Senior Scholar since 2013.
New Amsterdam from the New Netherland Project; 3D model of New Amsterdam in 1660, a historical reconstruction based on the Castello Plan; Mapping Early New York - interactive map and encyclopedia. "Conditions as Created by Their Lords Burgomasters of Amsterdam" is a publication, from 1656, about goals to populate New Amsterdam
The Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, [2] sometimes referred to as the Charter of Privileges and Exemptions, [3] is a document written by the Dutch West India Company in an effort to settle its colony of New Netherland in North America through the establishment of feudal patroonships purchased and supplied by members of the West India Company.
The Belgians: First Settlers in New York and in the Middle States (New York: The Devin-Adair Company. 1925) Bryan, Leslie A. Rapalje of New Netherlands (The Colonial Genealogist, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 157–159. January 1971) Gehring, Charles T. Annals of New Netherland. The Essays of A. J. F. van Laer (New York: New Netherland Project. 1999)