Director-General of New Netherland

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This is a list of Directors, appointed by the Dutch West India Company, of the 17th century Dutch province of New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland in Dutch) in North America. The largest settlement in New Netherland was New Amsterdam, which became the city of New York when the New Netherlanders ceded control provisionally to the English and renamed the Dutch province and city of New Amsterdam in June 1665. Only Peter Stuyvesant held the title of Director General. During the restitution to Dutch rule from August 1673 to November 1674, when New Netherland was under the jurisdiction of the City of Amsterdam, the first Dutch Governor was appointed: Anthony Colve.

[edit] 1624–1664

Director/Director General	From - To
Cornelis Jacobszoon May	1624 – 1625
Willem Verhulst	1625 – 1626
Peter Minuit	1626 – 1632
Sebastiaen Jansen Krol	1632 – 1633
Wouter van Twiller	1633 – 1638
Willem Kieft	1638 – 1647
Petrus Stuyvesant	1647 – 1664

[edit] See also

• Dutch colonization of the Americas
• List of mayors of New York City
• History of New York City