What if the Jamestown settlers landed and settled at or near Manhattan in 1607?
Would they have less harsh early years than the Jamestowners? Less heat and swampiness could be healthier.
Would tobacco grow in profitable amounts? If not, what becomes the colony's leading exports?
Perhaps they name the Hudson the James River instead, and as time goes on, OTL's New York and New Jersey are most identified with the name Virginia.
Would Henry Hudson attack them when exploring 2 years later?
If Henry Hudson, and then navigators and mappers working for the Dutch in later years, Adriaen Block, Hendrick Christiaensen, Cornelisz Mey and Symon Willemsz Cat, find English settlements dotting New York and New Jersey, but no English settlements in the Chesapeake, might the Dutch West India Company seek to establish New Netherlands in the Chesapeake in 1621?
How would a New Netherlands focused on OTL's Virginia and Maryland develop?
Were the early tribulations of the Jamestown settlers simply a consequence of the climate in the Chesapeake, or simply the consequences of picking a particularly unhealthy spot within the Chesapeake?
If the Dutch had similar death rates in Virginia as the English, would they have persisted or given up?
How would things in a a Dutch Virginia and an English New York-New Jersey go down through the rest of the 1600s?