In 1614 explorer Adriaen Block claimed what is now this U.S. state for the Dutch
Adriaen Block returned down the river into Long Island Sound... [DOC] [TLE] New Netherland Settlements - WikiTree [PAR] For its first half-century, the Dutch-claimed Middle Colonies of New ... claimed by 
the Dutch Republic, in the present-day American Mid-Atlantic states of Delaware, 
... Fort Huis de Goed Hoop, 1633, ---, near the Fresh River, now Hartford .... was 
first briefly visited by Dutch explorer Adriaen Block in 1614, and became a small,
... [DOC] [TLE] Chapter 1 [PAR] Two early maps of the east coast of North America may possibly show the 
coastline of