New Netherland Settlements - Settlement Pre-1674

Settlement Pre-1674

• Fort Nassau (1614) on Castle Eylandt in the North River, now Westerlo Island
• Fort Nassau (1621) on the Zuyd River, dismantled and relocated in (1651), now Gloucester City
• Noten Eylant (1624) at the mouth of the North River, now Governors Island
• Fort Orange (1624) to replace Fort Nassau on the North River, now Albany
• Fort Wilhelmus (1624), on the Zuyd Rivier (disbanded)
• Roduins or Rodenbergh (factorij-1620s?), now New Haven
• Kievets Hoek (1624), now Old Saybrook (disbanded)
• New Amsterdam (1624), now Lower Manhattan
• Fort Amsterdam (1625), at the tip of the isle of Manhattan
• Rensselaerswyck (1630), patroonship Kiliaen van Rensselaer on the North River, now Capital District
• Pavonia (1630) on the North River, attempted patroonship of Michael Pauw, now Hudson County
• Zwaanendael (1631), on the Zuyd Rivier, soon after plundered by the local population., now Lewes
• Fort Huis de Goed Hoop (1633) near the Fresh River, now Hartford
• Communipaw (1634), as Jan de Lacher's Hoeck, now Liberty State Park
• Noortwijk (1630s), now Greenwich Village
• Connecticut Colony (1636), by New Englanders near Fort Huis de Goed Hoop
• Quetenesse (1636), now Dutch Island
• Nieuwe Haarlem (1637) and (1652) municipal charter
• Pelham (1637), a New Englander's homestead
• New Haven Colony (1638) New Englander towns found at mouth of Quinnipiac River
• Fort Christina (1638), first of Swedish settlements on the Zuyd Rivier, Fort Altena in 1655, now Wilmington
• Broncks (1639) now The Bronx, settled by Jonas Bronck
• Paulus Hoeck (1639), a patent at Pavonia
• Staaten Eylandt (1639), an attempted patroonship of Cornelius Meyln ]
• Southhold (1640)
• Achter Col (1641), an attempted patroonship on the Hackensack River
• Vriessendael (1640), homestead of David Pietersen de Vries, now Edgewater
• Greenwich (1642), English manor under Dutch jurisdiction
• Vriedelandt (1642), Englishman John Throckmorton settles, now Throg's Neck
• Maspat (1642), under a charter granted to Rev. Francis Doughty, now Maspeth
• Beverwijck (1640s) a trading post surrounded by Rensselaerswyck, (1652) municipal charter
• Peekskill (possibly early 1640s, formalized in 1684)
• Hemsteede (1643), New England settlement on Lange Eylandt
• Hoboken (1643), a lease at Pavonia
• Eastchester (1643) homestead of Anne Hutchinson's family and followers
• Gravesend (1645) settled under Dutch patent by EnglishAnabaptist Lady Deborah Moody and followers
• Vlissingen (1645) under Dutch patent, mostly English colonists, many of them Quakers, now Flushing
• Breuckelen (1646), now Brooklyn Heights
• Colen Donck (1646), homestead of Jonkheer Adriaen van der Donck, now Yonkers
• Constable Hook (1646) patent
• Nieuw Amersfoort (1647), now Flatlands
• Minkakwa (1647), now Caven Point
• Weehawken (1647), a land patent
• Fort Beversreede (1648) on the Schuylkill River
• De Bouwerij (1649) homestead of Petrus Stuyvesant
• Fort Casimir (1651) now New Castle
• Midwout (1652), now Midwood
• Esopus (1652) now Ulster County
• Nieuw Utrecht (1652), or New Utrecht
• Oester Baai (1653), at the 1650 border between New England and New Netherland, now Oyster Bay
• Pelham Manor (1654), Englishman's Thomas Pell's purchase New Netherland/Siwanoy territory
• Pamrapo (1654) Achter Col patents, now Bayonne
• Nieuw Amstel (1655), now New Castle
• Rustdorp (1656) land patent, now Jamaica
• Wiltwyk (1657), now Kingston
• Poughkeepsie (1650s), by Barent Baltus
• Bergen (1660), now Hudson County
• Rye (1660), land purchase by English settlers
• Oude Dorpe (1661), now Old Town on Staten Island
• Boswijck (1661), now Bushwick
• Schenectady (1661)
• Claverack (1662), now Hudson
• Plockhoy Zwaanendael (1663), by Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy
• English Neighborhood (1668), eastern Bergen County
• Rotterdam (1670), as Woestina
• Nieuw Dorp (1671), now New Dorp