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What does New Netherland mean?

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  1. (historical) A Dutch colonial province along the east coast of North America, capital New Amsterdam
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Something different from what took place in New Spain or New England, and New Netherland.
By 1628 there were four hundred colonists in New Netherland.
In 1624, the Dutch briefly made Governors Island their base of operations in the freshly established territory of New Netherland — a tristate answer to the English colonies in Jamestown and Plymouth.
He soon surrendered, and New Netherland became an English colony.
In 1639, the leaders of New Netherland made one of the earliest recorded real estate deals in New York City history with the purchase of the area around the Gowanus Bay for construction of a tobacco plantation.
The Dutch laid claim to the territory he charted and planted a colony — New Netherland, with its capital of New Amsterdam — on the wilderness island of Manhattan.

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