<P> There were New Netherland settlements in what later became the US states of New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, with short - lived outposts in areas of today's Connecticut, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania . The capital, New Amsterdam, became the city of New York when the New Netherlanders provisionally ceded control of the colony to the English who renamed the city and the rest of the province in June 1665 . </P> <P> During the restitution to Dutch rule from August 1673 to November 1674, when New Netherland was under the jurisdiction of the City of Amsterdam, the first Dutch governor, Anthony Colve, was appointed . </P> <Table> <Tr> <Th> Portrait </Th> <Th> Director or Director - General </Th> <Th> Took office </Th> <Th> Left office </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Cornelius Jacobsen May (fl . 1600s) </Td> <Td> 1624 </Td> <Td> 1625 </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Explored Delaware Bay, New York Bay, Hudson River . </Li> <Li> Established base at Nut Island (Noten Eylant) and outposts including Fort Nassau on Delaware River . </Li> <Li> Cape May was named in his honour . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Willem Verhulst (or van der Hulst) (fl . 1600s) </Td> <Td> 1625 </Td> <Td> 1626 </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Initiated construction of Fort Amsterdam on southern tip of Manhattan Island, and Fort Wilhelmus on the Delaware River . </Li> <Li> Unpopular with the colonists, he was quickly replaced . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Peter Minuit (1580--1638) </Td> <Td> 1626 </Td> <Td> 1631 </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Purchased the island of Manhattan from Native Americans on May 24, 1626 for 60 Dutch guilders worth of goods . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Sebastiaen Jansen Krol (1595--1674) </Td> <Td> 1632 </Td> <Td> 1633 </Td> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wouter van Twiller (1606--1654) </Td> <Td> 1633 </Td> <Td> 1638 </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Previously a Dutch West India Company warehouse clerk, used family connections to the Rensselaer family to gain appointment </Li> <Li> purchased Nut Island (Noten Eylant), later called Governor's Island from Canarsee tribe for two axeheads, a string of beads and iron nails </Li> <Li> Lost the colony's claim of the Connecticut River valley to New England settlers </Li> <Li> Pushed back encroaching Virginia settlers who tried to settle Delaware River valley </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Willem Kieft (1597--1647) </Td> <Td> 1638 </Td> <Td> 1647 </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Attempted to drive out Lenape tribe . </Li> <Li> Attacks on Pavonia and Corlears Hook, led to Kieft's War . </Li> <Li> Fired by the Dutch West India Company in 1647 . </Li> <Li> Died at sea near Swansea, Wales on September 27, 1647 while returning to Amsterdam aboard the Princess Amelia . </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Peter Stuyvesant (c. 1612 - 1672) </Td> <Td> 1647 </Td> <Td> 1664 </Td> <Td> <Ul> <Li> Authorized charter for Communipaw and Bergen (now Jersey City) in 1660 . </Li> <Li> New Amsterdam, Pavonia, and other settlements attacked by the Susquehannocks during the brief Peach Tree War (1655) </Li> <Li> obtained victory the Esopus Wars against the Lenape and Esopus tribes </Li> <Li> Surrendered New Netherland to the British . </Li> <Li> Also the Director of Curaçao (1642--1664) </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Th> Portrait </Th> <Th> Director or Director - General </Th> <Th> Took office </Th> <Th> Left office </Th> <Th> Notes </Th> </Tr>

Who was the director general for the new netherland colony starting in 1647