Willem Verhulst was the second Director-general of the colony of the New-Country-Low to the use of the Compagnie Dutchwoman of the Western Indies of 1625 with 1626. Its direction lasted only one year before it is returned by the colonists with the United Provinces and to elect Pierre Minuit with the head of the colony Dutchwoman. W. Verhulst decided to establish the Fort Amsterdam with the southern point of the island of Manhattan, future site of the New Amsterdam.