Where and when was the did the Dutch settle in the New World?

Question: Where and when was the did the Dutch settle in the New World!?
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I think the Dutch came to the New World for commercial profit; certainly the reason they stayed initially was the lucrative fur trade!.

The first mention I have of them is in the 1540s, when the Dutch were among those mounting piratical attacks on Basque whaling stations in the Strait of Belle Isle (Newfoundland / Labrador)!.

In 1612, the Dutch established a trading post on Manhattan Island!. In 1614, the United New Netherlands Company was created and in 1615, they built Fort Amsterdam on the Maurice River!. The UNNC was replaced by the Dutch West Indies Company, and in 1626 they purchased Manhattan Island from the natives (Iroquois, likely Mohawk), reportedly for about forty dollars worth of trade goods!. At this point, New Amsterdam had about 300 (mainly) Dutch inhabitants and was a village of neat gabled houses and a brick church!. In 1630, Rensselaerswyck was built near what is now Fort Orange, New Jersey!. In 1655, the company allowed Fort Cristina to be built (Wilmington, Delaware) for two to three hundred Swedish and Finnish settlers!. This was annexed by New Netherlands in 1658!.

The English went to war against the Dutch in the New World in 1664, and the Dutch were defeated!. It was at this time that New Amsterdam was renamed New York!. I think that was really the end of the "Dutch colony" in the New World!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

17th century, bought the island of Manhattan from the natives, settled parts of upstate New York, too!.Www@QuestionHome@Com