question: What 17th-century colonial province was founded by the leader of a group of Walloon Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions?
answer: New Netherland
context: Title: Fort Wilhelmus
  Passage: Fort Wilhelmus was a factorij in the 17th-century colonial province of New Netherland, located on what had been named Hooghe Eyland (High Island) (also called Verhulsten Island) on the Zuyd Rivier, now Burlington Island in the Delaware River in New Jersey.
  Title: Colonial Williamsburg
  Passage: Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum and private foundation presenting part of a historic district in the city of Williamsburg, Virginia, United States.  Colonial Williamsburg's 301 acre Historic Area includes buildings from the eighteenth century (during part of which the city was the capital of Colonial Virginia), as well as 17th-century, 19th-century, Colonial Revival structures and more recent reconstructions.  The Historic Area is an interpretation of a colonial American city, with exhibits of dozens of restored or re-created buildings related to its colonial and American Revolutionary War history.  Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area's combination of restoration and re-creation of parts of the colonial town's three main thoroughfares and their connecting side streets attempts to suggest the atmosphere and the circumstances of 18th-century Americans.  Colonial Williamsburg's motto has been "That the future may learn from the past".
  Title: Jessé de Forest
  Passage: Jessé de Forest (1576 – October 22, 1624) was the leader of a group of Walloon Huguenots who fled Europe due to religious persecutions.  They emigrated to the New World, where he planned to found New-Belgium.
  Title: New Netherland
  Passage: New Netherland (Dutch: "Nieuw Nederland" ) was a 17th-century colonial province of the Seven United Netherlands that was located on the East Coast of North America.  The claimed territories extended from the Delmarva Peninsula to extreme southwestern Cape Cod, while the more limited settled areas are now part of the Mid-Atlantic States of New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Connecticut, with small outposts in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
  Title: John Eliot Historic District
  Passage: The John Eliot Historic District encompasses what was the historic early village center of Natick, Massachusetts.  Now the heart of the village of South Natick, it now exhibits a diversity of architecture from the 18th to early 20th centuries, laid out along historic 17th-century colonial routes.  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
  Title: Álvaro Barrera
  Passage: Álvaro Barrera is a Colombian architect, born in 1945, who has done restorative architectural work, both in Colombia and other Latin American countries (including some of Panama's colonial buildings).  He oversaw the restoration of Casa Pestagua in Cartagena, Colombia, an 18th-century colonial building constructed for a count near the Plaza Santo Domingo in 2007.  A commission for the French actor Claude Pimont.  He was also the architect in charge of the restoration of Casa Pombo, a 17th-century building in Cartagena that faces the Cathedral, Governor's Residence and overlooking the Plaza Bolivar.
  Title: Michel d'Herbigny
  Passage: Michel-Joseph Bourguignon d'Herbigny (] ; 8 May 1880 – 23 December 1957) was a French Jesuit scholar and Roman Catholic bishop.  He was president of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome, and of the Pontifical Commission for Russia.  He was secretly consecrated a bishop and was instrumental in a failed attempt to establish a clandestine hierarchy for the Catholic Church in the Soviet Union during the religious persecutions of the 1920s.
  Title: Wendelmoet Claesdochter
  Passage: Wendelmoet Claesdochter, or "Weynke Arisdochter of Monnickendam", (born in Monnickendam, died 1527 in The Hague), was a Dutch Lutheran.  She was executed for heresy by strangulation followed by burning, and is known as the first woman victim to the religious persecutions in the Netherlands during the reign of Emperor Charles V.  She was a leading figure in spreading the protestantism in Monnickendam through bible meetings.  She was used in propaganda as a protestant martyr, and appeared in the protestant martyrs book "Het offer des Heeren" since the 1570 edition.
  Title: Simon Bradstreet (disambiguation)
  Passage: Simon Bradstreet was a 17th-century colonial governor of Massachusetts.
  Title: Old Town, Staten Island
  Passage: Old Town is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Staten Island, located on its East Shore.  Old Town was established in August 1661 as part of New Netherland, and was the first permanent European settlement on Staten Island.  Originally described as "Oude Dorpe" (old village in Dutch), much of its original territory makes up what is present-day South Beach, with parts of Midland Beach and Dongan Hills.  The area was settled by a group of Dutch, Walloon (from what is now southern Belgium and its borders with France) and French Protestants (Huguenots) led by Walloon Pierre Billiou.
citations: Jessé de Forest New Netherland