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Tag: Dutch West India Company

6/3/1621 The Dutch West India Company is founded and granted a charter by the Dutch Republic

1/1/1624 Cornelius Jacobsen Mey is Director of New Netherland

5/1/1624 Dutch colonists arrive in New York Harbor

5/31/1624 The Dutch West India Company builds Fort Orange near the former site of Fort Nassau

1/1/1625 The Dutch West India Company relocate colonists to Manhattan

1/1/1625 Willem Verhulst is Director of New Netherland

5/26/1626 Director Peter Minuit negotiates the purchase of Manhattan

1/1/1630 Roeloff Jansen and Anneke Jans emigrate to New Netherland

1/1/1632 Sebastiaen Jansen Krol is Director of New Netherland

1/1/1633 Wouter van Twiller is Director of New Netherland

1/1/1636 Wouter van Twiller grants land in New Amsterdam to Roeloff Jansen and his wife Anneke Jans

1/1/1638 Willem Kieft is Director of New Netherland

1/1/1643 Kieft War begins

11/16/1644 Director General William Kieft issues a patent granting John Carman and settlers rights and title for Hempstead

9/27/1647 Director General Willem Kieft and Domine Everardus Bogardus die in a shipwreck

8/27/1664 Peter Stuyvesant provisionally cedes New Netherland to the English

1/1/1926 Peter Miniut is Director of New Netherland