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• n  a Dutch colony in North America along the Hudson and lower Delaware rivers although the colony centered in New Amsterdam; annexed by the English in 1664

• New Netherland

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• New Jersey's first 'subdivision'
  By Michele S. Byers Had things gone differently, this state we're in might have been called New Netherland, New Sweden, Nova Cesarea, or even Albania. But we ended up as New Jersey, a name that honors the Isle of Jersey in Great Britain - and gives us our famous "Jersey" attitude.
  March 3, 2014 - The Philadelphia Inquirer