Examining the Dutch in early America only through the prism of New Netherland is too limiting. The historiography inevitably follows a trajectory that leads to English takeover. This work explores how Dutch merchants fostered and nurtured trade with early American colonies at all levels and stages - from ship owners to supercargos to financiers - and over the varied geographical and political terrains in which early American commodities were grown, hunted, harvested, and traded. Chapters are organized geographically and chronologically and survey how Dutch trading networks played out in each of early America's three major regions - New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Chesapeake and later the Lower South from 1624 through 1750. Chronicling Dutch trade also serves to emphasize that participants in early America were rooted in global - as well as in local, regional, and imperial - landscapes. Accordingly, while each of the chapters of this work is regional, they are also integrated into something larger. In the end, this is a study that thinks across the Atlantic world yet explores various commodities or individual merchants to understand markets and networks. This narrative also demonstrates how profoundly Dutch capital, merchants, and iii goods affected early America. It confirms stereotypes about the intimacy of the Dutch with commerce or capital, about the character of Dutch merchants who thrived in a competitive commercial atmosphere, about the proliferation of Dutch trade throughout the Atlantic world during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. By examining Dutch trade, we develop a more nuanced and vivid understanding of commerce in early America. iv