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Governors Island! In 1624, the Dutch West India Company brought 30 predominantly French Huguenot families on the ship New Netherland to establish one of the earlist Dutch settlements in America on Nutten (now Governors) Island. They stayed there for several months and then moved across to lower Manhattan.
To create a trading hub for the Dutch West India Company as part of its global commercial empire.
Peter Stuyvesant.
Henry Hudson.
Fort Amsterdam, located at the southern tip of Manhattan.
The fur trade or the beaver trade.
Spain, during the Eighty Years’ War.
Golf, referred to as “kolf” in Dutch
The Collegiate School, originally the “Dutch School of New Amsterdam,” was founded in 1628 by the Dutch West India Company
