Glossary Term – Event
Capture of New Netherland
Dutch leader Peter Stuyvesant lost New Netherland (later New York), including New Amsterdam (the present-day island of Manhattan), to England in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
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Glossary Term – Event
Dutch colonization along Hudson River
Dutch colonists—both individuals and families—settled along the Hudson River, leading to the river's transformation into a major commercial waterway.
Glossary Term – Event
New Amsterdam established
Peter Minuit “purchased” the island of Manhattan from American Indians for sixty guilders and established New Amsterdam there.
Glossary Term – Event
First group manumission in North America
In the first group manumission in North America, eleven black slaves successfully petitioned the government of New Amsterdam for their freedom.
Glossary Term – Place
New Netherland
New Netherland was the region between the South River (now the Delaware) and the North River (now the Hudson) controlled and colonized by the Dutch. Sailing for the Dutch East India Company, Henry Hudson first explored the region in 1609 while searching for a passage to Asia. New Netherland, which included New Amsterdam (the present-day island of Manhattan), was lost to the English in the Second Anglo-Dutch War in 1664.
![Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii [New Netherland - New York], 1730. (Gilder Lehrm](http://www.gilderlehrman.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/aggregate-208x148/content-images/03583_0.jpg "Recens Edita totius Novi Belgii [New Netherland - New York], 1730. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)")