New Netherland, or Nieuw-Nederland in Dutch, was the 17th-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on the East Coast of North America. The claimed territories were the lands from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod. The settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. The provincial capital, New Amsterdam, was located at the southern tip of the island of Manhattan on upper New York Bay.

Governors of New Netherlands

• 1624 – 1625 : Cornelis Jacobszoon May
• 1625 – 1626 : Willem Verhulst
• 1626 – 1632 : Peter Minuit
• 1632 – 1633 : Sebastiaen Jansen Krol
• 1633 – 1638 : Wouter van Twiller
• 1638 – 1647 : Willem Kieft
• 1647 – 1664 : Petrus Stuyvesant

Notable people

Also see: Dutch West India Company

• Jacob Binckes
• Adriaen van der Donck
• Cornelis Evertsen de Jongste
• Kiliaen van Rensselaer
• Brant van Slichtenhorst
• Cornelis van Tienhoven
• Willem Usselincx