New+Netherland

Peter Stuyvesant ||
 * =New Netherlands= || Henry Hudson, Peter Minuits,


 * The first leader of New Netherlands claimed the land and settled colonies in it. Henry Hudson made the land claims for New Netherlands. The Dutch hoped to claim more land, and they were under the power of Dutch West India. ||  ||


 * The Dutch people's beliefs were Christian beliefs. || [[image:http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~monroenys/images/fist-baptist-church-fairport-new-york.jpg width="64" height="64" caption="Baptist Church: Fariport, New York"]] ||

The Dutch colonies did the Fur Trade with the Natives.


 * || [[image:http://cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=91554&rendTypeId=4 width="64" height="64" caption="The Fur Trade"]] ||

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 * New Netherlands is now New York because the Dutch colony of New Netherlands became an English colony. The English renamed New Amsterdam to honor the Duke of York.