New Netherlands By arkogroup 1613 Dutch Colonists form a settlement in New Amesterdam 1624 Dutch Colonists arrive in New York 1626 Peter Minuit (Dutch Colonist) purchases Manhattan Island from Native Americans. Renamed it New Amesterdam Sep 8, 1664 Dutch Governor (Peter Stuyvesant) surrenders New Netherlands to English. Renamed it New York 1673 Dutch military retakes New York from the British 1717 Dutch settle in Pennsylvania