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In 1624, settlers from the Netherlands began building New Amsterdam in New York.
In 1624, settlers from the Netherlands began building New Amsterdam in New York.
In 1624, settlers from the Netherlands began building New Amsterdam in New York.
New York city began as New Amsterdam, if speaking about the first European settlers.
The Dutch.
No, the Dutch did. Holland (The Netherlands) started a trading post at the mouth of the Hudson River called New Amsterdam, in the years 1624 to 1626. In 1664, the English took control of New Amsterdam, and renamed it New York.
They spoke a dialect of West Central German (and a few still do, within their communities). The "Pennsylvania Dutch" were Germans from the Palatinate and western Switzerland. The English colonists began calling them "Pennsylvania Dutch" because the word for German (in German) is "Deutcsh". While is it true that many of them came down the Rhine from the Palatinate and boarded ships from Amsterdam, they were not from Holland and they did not speak Dutch.
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The first settlers of Canarsie, Brooklyn, were the Lenape Native Americans, who inhabited the area long before European colonization. In the mid-17th century, Dutch colonists began to settle in the region, followed by the English after the English seized control of New Amsterdam in 1664. The area developed into a farming community and later attracted various immigrant groups in the 19th and 20th centuries, shaping its diverse cultural landscape.
The settlers and farmers that started farming the land.
Giovanni de Verrazano first explored the area that is now New York in 1524 and later by Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain in the early 1600's. It was first settled by the Dutch in 1613, who built trading posts along the Hudson River. The Dutch named the colony New Netherland. During the next ten years, Dutch settlers would establish small colonies at Albany and other points along the Hudson River.In 1625, Peter Minuit founded New Amsterdam at the outflow of the Hudson River. According to legend, Minuit paid local Indians about $24 worth of trinkets for the land. Who knew that America's largest city, New York City, would develop from the land that Minuet purchased.In the 1630's and 1640's, Puritans from other colonies began moving into New Amsterdam. They quickly gained political and economic influence. The British soon claimed the entire region, citing the explorations of John Cabot as justification. In 1664, a British naval fleet sailed into the harbor of New Amsterdam and forced its surrender. New Netherland was then divided into the colonies of New York and New Amsterdam. The name "New York," after James, Duke of York, replaced New Amsterdam.
The first Europeans to settle in New york State were the Dutch. Known as the best shippers of the colonial period, the Dutch had a huge financial interest in the 'New World.' The native people of New York State during the time of European colonization included (but was not limited to) Mohegan, Seneca, Delaware, and Mohawk.