The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City and parts of Long Island, Connecticut and New Jersey. A successful Dutch settlement in the colony grew up on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and was christened New Amsterdam.
<span>Thomas Mundy Peterson is the first African American man to ever vote. (1824) I have not found anywhere info of the first African American woman to vote.</span>
