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=== History === | === History === | ||
[[Image:{{NewNethMap}}]][[Image:{{NewAmspic}}]]'''New Netherland''' (Dutch: Nieuw-Nederland) was the former Dutch colony on the east coast of North America founded in 1614 or 1615. | |||
It included significant settlements in, or claims to, parts of what are now the states of [[New York Genealogy|New York]], [[New Jersey Genealogy|New Jersey]], [[Connecticut, United States Genealogy|Connecticut]], [[Delaware Genealogy|Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania Genealogy|Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island Genealogy|Rhode Island]], [[Massachusetts Genealogy Guide|Massachusetts]], and [[Maryland Genealogy|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> | It included significant settlements in, or claims to, parts of what are now the states of [[New York Genealogy|New York]], [[New Jersey Genealogy|New Jersey]], [[Connecticut, United States Genealogy|Connecticut]], [[Delaware Genealogy|Delaware]], [[Pennsylvania Genealogy|Pennsylvania]], [[Rhode Island Genealogy|Rhode Island]], [[Massachusetts Genealogy Guide|Massachusetts]], and [[Maryland Genealogy|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> | ||
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