Why did the Dutch send families to settle in America?

to begin an experiment in religious freedom

to evangelize the Indians

to secure their land claims

to oversee the fur trade with the Indians

To oversee the fur trade with the Indians. Dutch people came to America from the Netherlands. They showed no interest in agriculture and plantations as English people. they interested only in trading of fur with Indians. So they send families to America to settle there to supervise the trade.