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New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw Nederland) was a 17th-century colonial province [5] ... In 1654, the Netherlands lost New Holland in Brazil to Portugal, ...
The Jewish arrival in New Amsterdam of September 1654 was the first organized Jewish migration to North America. It comprised 23 Sephardi Jews, refugees "big and little" of families fleeing persecution by the Portuguese Inquisition after the conquest of Dutch Brazil.
Pieter van Kouwenhoven (1614–1699), one of the first magistrates of New Netherlands, member of the Schepens Court 1653–1654, 1658–1659, 1661 and 1663, delegate from New Amsterdam to the Convention of 1653, Lieutenant in the Esopus War, signer of the peace treaty 1664 with the Esopus Indians [13]
Dutch Brazil (Dutch: Nederlands-Brazilië; Portuguese: Brasil Holandês), also known as New Holland (Dutch: Nieuw-Holland), was a colony of the Dutch Republic in the northeastern portion of modern-day Brazil, controlled from 1630 to 1654 during Dutch colonization of the Americas.
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 Dutch were also unsuccessful in obtaining ratification of the 1650 Hartford agreement concerning the border between New Netherland and Connecticut. [1]: 12 This matter would be finally resolved by the transfer of New Netherland to England by the Treaty of Westminster of 1674. The Dutch were forced to make three minor humiliating concessions.
But on 9 August 1673 , during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, a Dutch naval squadron under the joint command of Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest and Jacob Binckes retook New York in the Reconquest of New Netherland and the Dutch held on to the colony under governor Anthony Colve for more than a year, until they exchanged it for the colony of Suriname ...
Bergen was married to Sarah Rapelje, the first female child of European parentage born in the colony of New Netherland [3] and whose chair is preserved in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. [4] Following Bergen's death in 1654, his widow remarried Teunis Gysbert Bogart. [1] [5] [6] [7]