Was not “the City of Amsterdam in New Netherland” the actual name of the town after it had ceased to be known as “Fort Amsterdam”? Just for shortness, I suppose, the wrong nomenclature is ...

He has spent 50 years translating thousands of handwritten Dutch documents that chronicled daily life in colonial Albany and beyond. He is the founder of the New Netherland Project for translation ...

Part of the problem may be that New York was created twice, with two sets of dates confusingly—yet tidily—40 years apart. In 1624 the Dutch West India Co. established New Netherland ...