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According to 2021 US Census data, 3,083,041 [1] Americans self-reported to be of (partial) Dutch ancestry, while 884,857 [2] Americans claimed full Dutch heritage. 2,969,407 Dutch Americans were native born in 2021, while 113,634 Dutch Americans were foreign-born, of which 61.5% was born in Europe and 62,9% entered the United States before 2000.
Dutch colonization in the Caribbean started in 1634 on St. Croix and Tobago (1628), followed in 1631 with settlements on Tortuga (now Île Tortue) and Sint Maarten.When the Dutch lost Sint Maarten (and Anguilla where they had built a fort shortly after arriving in Sint Maarten) to the Spanish, they settled Curaçao and Sint Eustatius.
Marius Jansen (1922–2000), American academic, historian, and Emeritus Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University. Herman Melville (1819–1891), author and poet, wrote Moby Dick [3] Milton J. Nieuwsma (born 1941), author, film writer and producer; Erwin Timmers (born 1964), Dutch-American environmental "green artist", glass ...
The Dutch colonial empire (Dutch: Nederlandse koloniale rijk) comprised the overseas territories and trading posts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies—mainly the Dutch East India Company and the Dutch West India Company—and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and by the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands after 1815.
The Dutch diaspora consists of the Dutch and their descendants living outside the Netherlands. [ 1 ] Emigration from the Netherlands has been occurring for since at least the 17th century, and may be traced back to the international presence of the Dutch Empire and its monopoly on mercantile shipping in many parts of the world.
1491: Columbus sets sail aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, [5] Cuba and Hispaniola.; 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year.
Coat of Arms of Philip Pieterse Schuyler. The Schuyler family (/ˈskaɪlər/; Dutch pronunciation: ) was a prominent Dutch family in New York and New Jersey in the 18th and 19th centuries, whose descendants played a critical role in the formation of the United States (especially New York City and northern New Jersey), in leading government and business in North America and served as leaders in ...
Op den Graeff (Dutch pronunciation: [ɔb də(ŋ) ˈɣraːf]) is a German and American family of Dutch origin. [1] They were one of the first families of the Mennonite faith in Krefeld at the beginning of the 17th century. Various family members belonged to Original 13, the first organized immigration of a closed group of Germans to America in 1683.