Well I do know that it used to be called new Amsterdam because the Dutch controlled it until the British in the I don't some 16 17 hundreds took it over and called it new York
New York is first established by the Dutch New York is taken by the English and renamed New York by the Duke of York New York was the most populated city in the colonies In 1780 the first St....
Some of the information about parts of New York's early settlements will be about "New Netherland" and about New York City as "New Amsterdam." See the links below to some web pages with information...