Not only was the first colonial government established, but also the West India Company offered a large of land to the Dutch investors who settled fifty adults in New Netherland within four years. The so-called “patroons” were obliged to purchase Indian claims to the lands. By January 1630, five huge patroonships had been organized, however, almost all of them ended up with commercial failures. The Company reduced the amount of patroonships, but even that did not help the Dutch to transplant European feudal system into a virgin wilderness of the newly explored
