Colonel Richard Nicolls, conqueror of New Netherland and first Governor of New York (1664-1668), won the approval of the Dutch inhabitants by granting them a remarkable degree of personal freedom and local autonomy. Although he required greater conformity from the English settlements in the colony, he exhibited patience and understanding toward their residents, most of whom were Puritans and Quakers, distrustful of royal commissioners such as Nicolls.
This collection of official documents pertaining to the administration of the Delaware region ends with the seizure of New Netherland from the Dutch in 1664. It is the first of two published translations that comprise volumes 18 to 21.
This volume of land papers from the “Colonial Manuscripts” in the New York State Archives comprises translations of three Dutch record books lettered GG, HH...
The credit for golf in its modern form is generally given to the Scots, but they certainly did not invent it from scratch.
When Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased the land for his patroonship on the upper Hudson in 1631, Fort Orange--the Dutch West India Company's permanent trading post in the region--was seven years old.
The New Netherland Institute announces a new research resource that focuses on enslavement in
the New Netherland Colony and Early New York.
The credit for golf in its modern form is generally given to the Scots, but they certainly did not invent it from scratch.
Resources for Native Americans and New Netherland and Dutch New York
The credit for golf in its modern form is generally given to the Scots, but they certainly did not invent it from scratch.
New Netherland and Dutch New York overlapped with the territories of many different Native peoples, all with particular social and political customs who had long pre-colonial histories of diplomacy with one another.
