Robert Remini
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 19 Sep
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By 1628, there were 400 colonists in New Netherland, but the colony did not grow rapidly, so the company tried to interest rich men in the scheme of colonization by giving them large tracts of land and large powers of government.
These great landowners were called patroons.
Most of them were not very successful.
Indeed, the whole plan was given up before long, and land was given to anyone who would come out and settle.
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Keeft and the Indians 1643-44 the worst of the early Dutch governors was William Keeft he was a bankrupt and a thief who was sent to New Netherland in the hope that he would reform at first he did well and put a stop to the smuggling and cheating which were common in the colony immigrants came over in large numbers and everything seemed to be going on well when Keeft's brutality brought on an Indian war that nearly destroyed the colony
The Indians living near New Amsterdam sought shelter from the Iroquois on the mainland opposite Manhattan Island.
Keeft thought it would be a grand thing to kill all these Indian neighbors while they were collected together.
He sent a party of soldiers across the river and killed many of them.
The result was a fierce war with all the neighboring tribes.
The Dutch colonists were driven from their farms.
Even in New Amsterdam, with its stockade, was not safe.
For the Indians sometimes came within the stockade and killed the people in the town.
When there were less than 200 people left in New Amsterdam, Keeft was recalled, and Peter Stuyvesant was sent as governor in his stead.
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Stuyvesant's Rule
Stuyvesant was a hot-tempered, energetic soldier who had lost a leg in the company service.
He ruled New Netherland for a long time, from 1647 to 1664, and he ruled so sternly that the colonists were glad when the English came and conquered them.
This unpopularity was not entirely Stuyvesant's fault.
The Dutch West India Company was a failure.
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