USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City and parts of Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey. A successful Dutch settlement in the colony grew up on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and was christened New Amsterdam.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Kastelein is founder and CSO of NewAmsterdam Pharma and part of the Executive Board.

Detailed explanation-3: -The English kept the island of Manhattan, the Dutch giving up their claim to the town and the rest of the colony, while the English formally abandoned Surinam in South America, and the island of Run in the East Indies to the Dutch, confirming their control of the valuable Spice Islands.

Detailed explanation-4: -The small colonial town that the Dutch founded in North America was called New Amsterdam.

Detailed explanation-5: -Founded to protect the Dutch West India Company’s beaver trade on the Hudson River and to establish a Dutch presence in eastern North America, New Amsterdam colony sat at the southern tip of what is now Manhattan in New York Harbor.