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When Did New York Exist?

Following Hudson’s voyages, the Dutch established New Netherland as a fur trading outpost and their first colony in the New World. Dutch merchants soon began sponsoring trips to the new colony, and the first 31 Dutch colonists’ families arrived in 1623. They established New Amsterdam—now known as New York City—in 1624. When was New York …

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