
Traces of a Dutch presence can be found all over the world from the past few hundred years. From Spitsbergen to Brazil and from North America to India, remains of Dutch trade can be found everywhere and cemeteries have been laid out in many places. One of the areas was the territory of New Netherland in the present-day United States (US). At about the same time, the English settled in what they called New England and started a colony there that would eventually outflank the Dutch.
