ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Created by William Usselinx, The Dutch West India Company encouraged people to seek land that they considered widely available for Dutch citizens to purchase from the indigenous people. New Netherland had been conceived as a private business venture to exploit the North American fur trade.

Detailed explanation-2: -New Netherland was a colony founded by the Dutch on the east coast of North America in the seventeenth century, which vanished when the English wrested control of it in 1664, turning its capital, New Amsterdam, into New York City. It extended from Albany, New York, in the north to Delaware in the south.

Detailed explanation-3: -Peter Stuyvesant arrived in New Amsterdam in 1647, the only governor of the colony to be called Director-General.

Detailed explanation-4: -Petrus Stuyvesant is best known as New Netherland’s longest, most influential, and last Dutch governor, having served until the English overthrew the colony’s Dutch administration and renamed it New York in 1664.