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== | === History === | ||
{{Adoption PARoots}} [[Image:New Nederland map.png|thumb|left|200px]]'''New Netherland''' (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland) was the former Dutch colony on the east coast of North America founded in 1614 or 1615. | |||
[[Image:New Nederland map.png|thumb|left|200px]]'''New Netherland''' (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland) was the former Dutch colony on the east coast of North America founded in 1614 or 1615. | |||
[[Image:GezichtOpNieuwAmsterdam.jpg|thumb|right|250px]] | [[Image:GezichtOpNieuwAmsterdam.jpg|thumb|right|250px]] | ||
It included significant settlements in, or claims to, parts of what are now the states of [[New York|New York]], [[New Jersey|New Jersey]], [[Connecticut]], [[Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island|Rhode Island]], [[Massachusetts]], and [[Maryland|Maryland]] (between Cape Cod and [[:Virginia|Virginia]]).<ref name="WNN">"New Netherland" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Netherland (accessed 4 November 2008).</ref> | |||
In 1654 [[New Sweden|New Sweden]] captured Fort Casimir from New Netherland in what is now [[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County, Delaware]]. The next year, 1655, the Dutch counter-attacked, conquered, and absorbed all of former [[New Sweden|New Sweden]], but granted it some autonomy.<ref>"New Sweden" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden (accessed 4 November 2008).</ref> | In 1654 [[New Sweden|New Sweden]] captured Fort Casimir from New Netherland in what is now [[New Castle County, Delaware|New Castle County, Delaware]]. The next year, 1655, the Dutch counter-attacked, conquered, and absorbed all of former [[New Sweden|New Sweden]], but granted it some autonomy.<ref>"New Sweden" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Sweden (accessed 4 November 2008).</ref> | ||
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A web-site to use for more information is: [http://www.hollandsociety.com/index1.html Holland Society] | A web-site to use for more information is: [http://www.hollandsociety.com/index1.html Holland Society] | ||
== References == | === References === | ||
*Gwenn F. Epperson, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29980509&referer=brief_results New Netherlands Roots] (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub., 1994.)[FHL book 974.7 D27e] A step-by step guide explaining how to use the [[Family History Library|Family History Library]] to find European place of origin for settlers of the New Netherland. Numerous New Netherland sources, European indexes, gazetteers, maps, church records and other resources are carefully described. | *Gwenn F. Epperson, [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29980509&referer=brief_results New Netherlands Roots] (Baltimore: Genealogical Pub., 1994.)[FHL book 974.7 D27e] A step-by step guide explaining how to use the [[Family History Library|Family History Library]] to find European place of origin for settlers of the New Netherland. Numerous New Netherland sources, European indexes, gazetteers, maps, church records and other resources are carefully described. | ||
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*Lorine McGinnis Schulze, "Index to 81 Ships Passenger Lists 1624-1664" [to New Netherland] in The Olive Tree Genealogy at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/ships/ (accessed 4 November 2008). | *Lorine McGinnis Schulze, "Index to 81 Ships Passenger Lists 1624-1664" [to New Netherland] in The Olive Tree Genealogy at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/ships/ (accessed 4 November 2008). | ||
*"NA Baptisms 1639-1730" in RootsWeb at http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Erbillard/na_baptisms_1639-1730.htm (accessed 4 November 2008). New Amsterdam (New York City) Dutch Reformed Church christenings.<br> | *"NA Baptisms 1639-1730" in RootsWeb at http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Erbillard/na_baptisms_1639-1730.htm (accessed 4 November 2008). New Amsterdam (New York City) Dutch Reformed Church christenings.<br> | ||
=== Sources === | === Sources === | ||
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[[Category:Former_Countries]] [[Category:New_York]] [[Category:New_Jersey]] [[Category:Connecticut]] [[Category:Delaware]] [[Category:Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Maryland]] [[Category:Huguenots]] [[Category:United_States]] [[Category:Netherlands]] | [[Category:Former_Countries]] [[Category:New_York]] [[Category:New_Jersey]] [[Category:Connecticut]] [[Category:Delaware]] [[Category:Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Maryland]] [[Category:Huguenots]] [[Category:United_States]] [[Category:Netherlands]] | ||