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New Amsterdam (Dutch: Nieuw Amsterdam, pronounced [ˌniu.ɑmstərˈdɑm]) was a 17th-century Dutch settlement established at the southern tip of Manhattan Island that served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland.
A 1664 illustration of New Netherland Landing of the English at New Amsterdam 1664. In March 1664, Charles granted American territory between the Delaware and Connecticut rivers to James. On May 25, 1664 Colonel Richard Nicolls set out from Portsmouth with four warships led by the HMS Guinea, [6] and about three hundred
The original city map, 1660 Redraft of the Castello Plan of New Amsterdam in 1660, redrawn in 1916 by John Wolcott Adams and Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. The Castello Plan – officially entitled Afbeeldinge van de Stadt Amsterdam in Nieuw Neederlandt (Dutch, "Picture of the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland") – is an early city map of what is now the Financial District of Lower Manhattan ...
Peter Minuit, who founded New Sweden in 1638 Pieter Schaghen's 1626 letter saying Manhattan had been purchased for 60 Dutch guilders Redraft of the Castello Plan (drawn in 1916) showing the Dutch city of New Amsterdam at Manhattan's southern tip in 1660 New Amsterdam centered in what eventually became Lower Manhattan in 1664, the year England ...
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 .
Before the Second Anglo-Dutch War had even started an English fleet took over the colony New Netherland of the Dutch West India Company in 1664 in a bloodless coup in the name of the Duke of York. The colony was renamed New York, and the town of New Amsterdam was given the same name. [5] This situation was left in place in the Peace of Breda of ...
The capitulation of Peter Stuyvesant in New Amsterdam (by Charles Hemstreet) On August 27, 1664, Richard Nicolls, the English commander, acting on instructions from England, delivered an ultimatum to the Hon. Mr. Stuyvesant, the current governor, demanding surrender at the old mill by Monday morning at eight o'clock. On September 8, Stuyvesant ...
On August 29, 1664, The Duke of York’s forces captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch, as part of their conquest of New Netherland. They renamed New Netherland as the Province of New York, which included modern New York, New Jersey, Vermont, southeast Pennsylvania, and Delaware. [1] Yorkshire was created soon afterward in 1664.