Actually, GLG is a scam -. I received an invitation from one of their representatives to do consultations for GLG, as have many others and was left with the impression that opportunities would be presented to me provided that I submitted applications for open consulting projects.
Small trading colonies sprang up where the present towns of Hoboken and Jersey City are located. The Dutch, Swedes, and Finns were the first European settlers in New Jersey. Bergen, founded in 1660, was New Jersey's first permanent European settlement. In 1664 the Dutch lost New Netherlands when the British took control of the land and added it to their colonies.
The settlers of the Dutch West Indies Company bought Manhattan and Staten Island in exchange for trade goods. The British eventually took over from the Dutch Knickerbockers and renamed New Amsterdam, New York. whale. The Dutch founded New York, only they called New Amsterdam, its name was changed to New York by the British when they took it over. New York was originally called New Amsterdam, settled by the Dutch. When the English got it, they renamed it New York.