The British took over New Amsterdam and named it New York after the Duke of York who was given the land by the king.
It was a Dutch colony in North America.
New Netherlands.
new netherland
Nieuw Amsterdam (nieuw=new) (now New York, Manhattan)
New York was founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century as New Amsterdam, before it was later taken over by the English and renamed New York.
a patroon was a rich landholder with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherlands in North America.
The New Netherlands colony in North America stretched from Delaware to Cape Cod in what are now the modern US States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Connecticut, with outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The capital of the Dutch colony was New Amsterdam, at the tip of the island of Manhattan, which after being taken over by the British was renamed New York.
Indonesia was an important Dutch colony in Southeast Asia. New York was an important colony in North America. South Africa was an important colony in Africa. Suriname and parts of Brazil were important colonies in South America.
Dutch settlement in the Americas started in 1613. From then on a number of villages, including New Amsterdam on the East Coast, which would become the future world metropolis of New York City, were established by Dutch immigrants
In North America,
Pymouth was one of the many English colonies that settled in the North America's and in my opinion, the best French and Dutch colony ever.
The Dutch immigrated to North America for a better life. Also to find good farmland.