Colonial

=colonial     Established in 1614 by Dutch merchants as a promising fur-trading post, the colony of New Netherland took several decades to achieve a population prosperous enough to support craftsmen and merchants.Attempts by the Dutch West India Company to encourage Dutch settlement through the patron system were largely unsuccessful, but when the net was cast wider around 1650, colonists from northern France and other parts of the Low Countries began to immigrate as well, creating both a multicultural population and a growing commercial base =