27 July 2009 - Pioneers and patroonships - part 2 in our series celebrating the 400 year relationship between the Netherlands and New York.

This week we meet some of the brave pioneers who made up  the farming settlements, or patroonships, in the new Dutch colony. We'll hear about their relationships with the natives and how they began to build the port city of New Amsterdam. We'll also find out why the New Netherland experiment nearly failed.