The Dutch Settlers Society of Albany

The New Netherland Research Center (NNRC) promotes and supports scholarship and knowledge about the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Netherland in North America.

Honoring our Dutch Ancestors and Heritage The purpose and objectives of the Dutch Colonial Society:

17th century historical subjects

An author with deep New York roots, Gloria Waldron Hukle currently lives with her husband in Averill Park, New York. Hukle is the author of three novels, Manhattan Seeds of the Big Apple, The Diary of a Northern Moon and Threads-An American Tapestry.

We provide English language news for the Dutch-American community. Topics that we cover include Dutch-American cultural events and current affairs. We provide an unique Dutch-American perspective to the news articles we carry.

We like to say our relationship with Nijkerk began about 1630, when Arendt Van Curler from Nijkerk established the trading outpost that would become the City of Schenectady. In 1909 the Dutch churches in Nijkerk and Schenectady exchanged tablets memorializing this connection. City-to-City exchanges between inhabitants of the City of Schenectady and the City of Nijkerk have been in existence since 1984.