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'''Dutch, Swedes, and Finns.''' The Dutch of [[New Netherland|New Netherland]] intermittently occupied Fort Nassau (now Brooklawn, Camden, New Jersey) starting in 1623.<ref>Amandus Johnson, "[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nycoloni/nswamap.html Detailed Map of New Sweden 1638-1655]" in Amandus Johnson's book ''The Swedes on the Delaware 1638-1664'' (Philadelphia: Swedish Colonial Society, 1915), 392.</ref><ref>"Fort Nassau" in Probert Encyclopaedia of Architecture [Internet site] at http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/T_FORT_NASSAU.HTM (accessed 10 November 2008). "Fort Nassau was a fort erected on the site of the present town of Gloucester, New Jersey by Captain Cornelius Jacobsen Mey, representing the Dutch West India Company in 1623. It was abandoned and rebuilt a number of times, and finally abandoned in 1651."</ref><ref>"Location of Fort Nassau" in Gloucester County, New Jersey History and Genealogy [Internet site] at http://www.nj.searchroots.com/Gloucesterco/fortnassau.htm#Location (accessed 8 November 2008).</ref> The northeastern part of New Jersey was the first to be permanently settled because of its close proximity to New Amsterdam (New York City). Bergen (now Jersey City), on the west bank of the Hudson River, was the first permanent Dutch settlement starting in 1630.<ref>"Bergen, New Netherland" in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen,_New_Netherland (accessed 12 December 2008).</ref> After the English conquest in 1664, the Dutch continued to spread into Bergen County and the Raritan Valley and then into Somerset and northern Monmouth in the 1680s and 1690s. Many of these settlers came from Kings County, New York. For more details about the Dutch influence in the area see the [[New Netherland|New Netherland]] wiki article, the [[New Jersey Court Records|New Jersey Court Records]] and [[New Jersey Probate Records|New Jersey Probate Records]], the [[Portal:New York|New York]] wiki article, and Gwenn F. Epperson's ''New Netherland Roots'' (Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publ., 1994). (Family History Library [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=651271&disp=New+Netherland+roots%20%20&columns=*,0,0 book 974.7 D27e].) Discusses and quotes examples from passenger lists, early government records, marriage registers, church records, and court records of New Netherland. Also discusses early Dutch, German, Belgian, French, and Scandinavian sources.