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The Dutch were the first organized European settlers in the Hudson Valley. The settlement of New Amsterdam was located in what is now lower Manhattan, and Peter Minuit, while governing the settlement, famously gave local Indians a little compensation in exchange for what he understood to be everything in the region. European authority bounced back and forth between the Dutch Republic and England as a front of a global battle for trading rights and finally became the colony of "New York" under English authority in 1674. The most accurate response might be that the Dutch and English settlements in the area were established and overseen by the boards of royally chartered commercial ventures; primarily, The Dutch West Indies Company, the Plymouth Company, the London Company, and the East India Company.

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