Join the new world

Dear friends,

After a long and harsh journey across the northern Atlantic ocean we have arrived in the new world. A special part of the new world, namely an area that belongs to the Netherlands.



The area has the Latin name nova hollandia also called new netherlands.
An area enclosed between two huge English colonies. Virginia and connecticut.



The capital of this area was the city of New Amsterdam.
The city that will be called New York after the conquest of English, but more about this later.

The population of this city and colony was certainly not exclusively Dutch. The WIC (western Indian company) That founded this colony. Had made it clear from the start that everyone was welcome here. This colony was therefore a diverse colony.

Population
39% English
18% German
10% Dutch
9% Scottish
7% African (especially slaves)
5% Irish
3% Welsh
3% Swedish
2% French
4% other

which language was spoken here you naturally ask yourself. The most dominant language in the new Netherlands was still Dutch, as though this group was a minority.

How did it end for the Dutch colony called New Netherlands?
New Netherlands soon faced two major problems. Hardly or no support from the Netherlands, alienating the population with their old homeland. two huge growing English colonies next to the colony that made both trade and survival increasingly difficult. It is therefore not strange that during the second English Dutch war this colony was taken over without many problems. After this has happened and the English want to return the colony after the war, however, the Netherlands chooses to preserve the new conquered territory Suriname. (we will discuss this much more in Suriname).

From this moment on the area will be named after the duke of york whose name this area was conquered for. This gave the area the name New York.

is there anything to be found that the Dutch were here first? oh yes! I will start with a number of well-known neighborhoods or streets.
Wallstreet: Muurstraat.The place where this street is now was first the fortress wall of the city of New Amsterdam that ensured that the city was safe.

brooklyn: Breuckelen a village that was just outside the city of new Amsterdam.

Harlem: Nieuw-haarlem A farming community that provided food for the city and the surrounding villages.

And many more neighborhoods and streets!
› Battery Island (a batterij or battery of cannons was once stationed here)
› Beekman Street (Manhattan, after Willem Beekman)
› Bleecker Street (Manhattan, after the Bleecker family)
› Bowery Lane (Manhattan, Bouwerijlaan)
› Bronx (New York, after Jonas Bronck)
› Bridge street (Manhattan, after Brugstraat)
› Broadway (Manhattan, after Breede Wegh which means broad road)
› Brooklyn (New York, after Breukelen)
› Bushwick (Brooklyn, after Boswijk)
› Boerum Hill (Brooklyn, after the Boerum family)
› Coney Island (Brooklyn, after Konijneneiland which means Rabbit Island)
› Cornelia Street (Manhattan, after Cornelia Herring)
› Cortlandt Street (Manhattan, after Stephanus van Cortlandt)
› Dutch Kills (Queens, any local names ending in Kill are of Dutch origin)
› Dutch Street (Manhattan)
› Dyker Heights (Brooklyn)
› Flushing (Queens, after Vlissingen)
› Gansevoort Street (Manhattan, after Peter Gansevoort)
› Gerritsen Beach (Brooklyn, after Wolphert Gerritse)
› Gravesend (Brooklyn, after 's Gravesande)
› Greenwich Village (Manhattan, after Grenen wijk)
› Harlem (New York, after Haarlem)
› Hells Gate (New York, after Helle Gadt, referring to dangerous currents in the East River)
› Hempstead (New York, after Heemstede)
› Holland Tunnel, Holland Avenue
› Long Island (New York, after "Lange Eylandt" named by Adriaen Block, 1614)
› Minetta Lane (Manhattan, after Mintje Kill)
› Nassau Street (Manhattan)
› New Dorp (Staten Island, dorp means village)
› New Utrecht Avenue (Brooklyn)
› Rhode Island (after "Roodt eylandt" which means Red Island)
› Rikers Island (Queens, after Abraham Rikers)
› Schuylerville (Bronx, after the Schuyler family)
› Spuyten Duyvil Creek (after Spuitende Duivel or Spitting Devil, referring to dangerous currents)
› Staten Island (after Staten Generaal)
› Stuyvesant Street (Manhattan, after Peter Stuyvesant)
› Todt Hill (Staten Island, after Dodenheuvel which means hill of the dead)
› Vancouver (after George Vancouver, a descendent of the Dutch Van Coeverden nobility)
› Vandam Street (Manhattan)
› Wall Street (Manhattan, after the city wall around Nieuw-Amsterdam)
› Wyckoff Street (Brooklyn, after Pieter Claesen Wyckoff)
› Yonkers (after Jonker, Jonkheer and jonge Heer)


Is there anything left of the Dutch culture in this city?
Really dutch no that is not but the city has never gone far away from the starting point a city where everyone was welcome regardless of your faith culture or language.

Was this not the case with other English colonies? No, absolutely not, you could even be prosecuted if you didn't believe according to the English church.

New York was therefore a place in the new world with a principle that was only in one place in the old world at the time.

We will leave New Amsterdam and New Netherlands behind and travel to the place for which this colony was ceded to the English.


Your captain,
Koning der zeeuwe.