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1607 and 1611- The English explorer Henry Hudson made four voyages up the Hudson River 1609- De Halve Maen (The Half Moon), charted the rivers that we know today as the Hudson, the Connecticut and the Delaware. 1624- Nieu Nederlandt (New Netherland) put in at the island, under the command of Cornelis Jacobsz May. May's passengers comprised a group of 30 families from an area of the Low Countries or Spanish Netherlands called Wallonia. 1625- 45 more colonists and several hundred cows, horses, sheep and pigs November 22, 1630- Pauw bought the land from the Lenni Lenape for a Patroonship 1620s and 1630s- Traffic on the North River moved steadily between New Amsterdam-the capital of New Netherland, located on the island of Manhattan-and Fort Orange, the outpost 150 miles to the north 1641 to 1643- Adriaen Van der Donck decided he would like a Patroonship of his own, he got a grant of land from the West India Company. He named his estate Colen Donck, 1652- A group of about 60 Fort Orange settlers moved south to this spot and formed a village. They named it Esopus
Staten Eylandt- It was named for the Staten Generaal, or States General, the governing body of the Netherlands in the seventeenth century. Henry Hudson sailed past the island in the Half Moon in 1609. The First Mate said that the Island looks great for plantations and growing vegetation on. Unfortunate this did not turn out to be true. The Indians would not let go of the land. In 1630, Pieter Minuit, as director general of New Netherland, purchased the island from the Unami Indians of the Delaware tribe for Duffels, Kittles, Axes, Hoes, Wampum, Drilling Awls, Jews Harps, and diverse other small wares. Nut Island- A small island jutting out into the harbor. It was an ideal base for establishing a small settlement and fort for defending the harbor and the Hudson River from would-be invaders. It was named Noten Eylant, or Nut Island, after the walnut and chestnut trees that grew there, as their initial base. We know it today as Governor's Island. Albany-The Dutch began to realize that beaver skins were numerous here and began trading with the Indians for furs. Beverwijck, later Albany, was the central hub this trade went through and it grew to become the second city in New Netherland, after New Amsterdam, and eventually the capital of New York State. Mohawk River-This is where the Mohawk Indians lived. The Mohawk River, which extended nearly all the way to the Great Lakes, was a main water highway through the lands of the five nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. The Mohawk Indians in particular traveled down it in their canoes, bringing furs to trade with the Dutch. The Cohoes Falls, which tumble 70 feet as the Mohawk nears the end of its course, as well as many rapids and treacherous bends, kept the Dutch mostly content to let the Indians come to them.
Colen Donck- He trained as a lawyer at the prestigious Leiden University in the Netherlands, but then, seeking adventure, applied for the position of schout-a combination of sheriff and public prosecutor-on the vast patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, surrounding present-day Albany. He served there from 1641 to 1643, when, deciding he would like a patroonship of his own, he got a grant of land from the West India Company. He named his estate Colen Donck Staten Island- But the Dutch plantations on Staten Island didn't fare well. In 1641, after the new director general, Willem Kieft, decided to levy a tax on local Indians, the Raritan tribe attacked the Staten Island plantation of the Dutch adventurer David de Vries, killing four people. It was the end of the colony's relatively peaceful days among its Indian neighbors. Mohawk River-The Dutch were content to let the Indians come to them. In the winter of 1634-35, however, a hearty young man named Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who had been hired as the surgeon of Fort Orange, led a small party of adventurers on a mission into Mohawk country. Their arduous journey, on foot through an icy wilderness, resulted in one of the earliest visits by Europeans to Mohawk villages. In a journal he made during his trip, Van den Bogaert also made a list of Mohawk vocabulary, the first of its kind. War- In July of 1652, war broke out between England and the Netherlands. As battle commenced in Europe and on the high seas, it also affected relations between the two nations’ respective North American colonies. Many New Englanders thought the time was right to overrun the Dutch colony to the south. In New Amsterdam, meanwhile, Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant, hunkered down within the walls of Fort Amsterdam, read dispatches from his superiors in the Netherlands telling him of recent events and instructing him to prepare for the worst.
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Colen DonckHe trained as a lawyer at the prestigious Leiden University in the Netherlands, but then, seeking adventure, applied for the position of schout-a combination of sheriff and public prosecutor-on the vast patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, surrounding present-day Albany. He served there from 1641 to 1643, when, deciding he would like a patroonship of his own, he got a grant of land from the West India Company. He named his estate Colen Donck Staten Island But the Dutch plantations on Staten Island didn't fare well. In 1641, after the new director general, Willem Kieft, decided to levy a tax on local Indians, the Raritan tribe attacked the Staten Island plantation of the Dutch adventurer David de Vries, killing four people. It was the end of the colony's relatively peaceful days among its Indian neighbors. Mohawk RiverThe Dutch were content to let the Indians come to them. In the winter of 1634-35, however, a hearty young man named Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, who had been hired as the surgeon of Fort Orange, led a small party of adventurers on a mission into Mohawk country. Their arduous journey, on foot through an icy wilderness, resulted in one of the earliest visits by Europeans to Mohawk villages. In a journal he made during his trip, Van den Bogaert also made a list of Mohawk vocabulary, the first of its kind. WarIn July of 1652, war broke out between England and the Netherlands. As battle commenced in Europe and on the high seas, it also affected relations between the two nations’ respective North American colonies. Many New Englanders thought the time was right to overrun the Dutch colony to the south. In New Amsterdam, meanwhile, Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant, hunkered down within the walls of Fort Amsterdam, read dispatches from his superiors in the Netherlands telling him of recent events and instructing him to prepare for the worst.
