Netherlands and assumed guardianship of Johannes, eldest son of Killian van Rensselaer, following the death of that patroon in 1644. He died in Amsterdam. See also Dutch colonization of the Americas Dutch Empire List of colonial governors of New Jersey List of colonial governors of New York References Notes Bibliography New Amsterdam Project Griffis, William Elliot The Story of New Netherland. The Dutch In America Chapter VI. The Riverside Press. Cambridge. 1909 Jacobs, Jaap. New Netherland: A Dutch Colony in Seventeenth-Century America. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005. . Johnson, Allen (ed.) Dutch and English on the Hudson (Chapter IV). New Haven: Yale University Press. 1919 17th-century Dutch people 1606 births 1654 deaths American people of Dutch descent Directors of New Netherland Dutch emigrants to New Netherland People from Nijkerk Wouter van Twiller