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The written history of New York City began with the first European explorer, the Italian Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524. European settlement began with the Dutch in 1608 and New Amsterdam was founded in 1624.
New York was officially founded in 1664 when English forces captured New Amsterdam and took control of the Dutch colony of New Netherland. The Dutch initially founded their colony in 1614, which included portions of present-day New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Connecticut, and Delaware.
The first native New Yorkers were the Lenape, an Algonquin people who hunted, fished and farmed in the area between the Delaware and Hudson rivers.
New York was originally part of New Netherland. This Dutch colony was founded after Henry Hudson explored the area in 1609. He had sailed up the Hudson River. By the following year, the Dutch began trading with Indigenous peoples.
In 1664, the English took control of the area and renamed it New York. One of the original 13 colonies, New York played a crucial political and strategic role during the American Revolution.
This marked the beginning of representative government in New Amsterdam which became New York fourteen years later and was the forerunner of the current City Council and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history.
NEW YORK COLONY began as the Dutch trading outpost of New Netherland in 1614. On 4 May 1626, officials of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland founded New Amsterdam, which subsequently became New York City. The English captured the colony in 1664, though a complete ousting of Dutch rule did not occur until 10 November 1674.
In 1674, as a consequence of the Treaty of Westminster, the island of Manhattan was passed to the English, who renamed it New York in honour of the Duke of York. A few years later, King James II established the Dominion of New England, comprising all of the neighboring colonies.
The city of New York was founded there. The Dutch tried to settle large estates in their new colony, but few Dutchman wanted to move. William Kieft was appointed the director general of the New Netherlands.
In 1624, the Dutch settled and founded New Amsterdam (now Manhattan Island), a place where the Lenape (or Manhatte) Indians lived. Four decades later, the English took over the land and renamed the place New York.