Dutch West India Company – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Wed, 20 Jan 2021 04:06:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 The Dutch West India Company is founded and granted a charter by the Dutch Republic ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-is-founded-and-granted-a-charter-by-the-dutch-republic/ ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-is-founded-and-granted-a-charter-by-the-dutch-republic/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 07:53:49 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2189
Willem Usselincx, founder

Orders are given for private, commercial traders to vacate the territory opening it to Dutch settlers and company traders

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_Dutch_West_India_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Usselincx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

]]> ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-is-founded-and-granted-a-charter-by-the-dutch-republic/feed/ 0 Cornelius Jacobsen Mey is Director of New Netherland ../../../cornelius-jacobsen-may-is-the-director-of-new-netherland/ ../../../cornelius-jacobsen-may-is-the-director-of-new-netherland/#respond Fri, 14 Mar 2014 02:10:09 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2625 c 1624 -c 1625

– The first appointed by the Dutch West India Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Jacobsen_May

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_New_Netherland

]]> ../../../cornelius-jacobsen-may-is-the-director-of-new-netherland/feed/ 0 Dutch colonists arrive in New York Harbor ../../../dutch-colonist-families-arrive-in-new-york-harbor-and-settle-on-manhattan-island/ ../../../dutch-colonist-families-arrive-in-new-york-harbor-and-settle-on-manhattan-island/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 08:48:33 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2193 30 families; 110 men, woman and children, land on Noten Eylandt (Island of Nuts, Governor’s Island) in May 1624

A period of private commercial trading, that began in 1614, ends as the Dutch Republic orders those companies to vacate the territory between 1621 and 1623 in order to open it to Dutch settlers and companies

Dutch law now applies rather than the law of the ship

Eight families are left to lay claim to Manna-hata (Manhattan) for the Dutch West India Company while the rest continue up the North River to help establish the center of their fur trading operations at Castle Island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governors_Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Amsterdam

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/hudson-river/nut-island/

]]> ../../../dutch-colonist-families-arrive-in-new-york-harbor-and-settle-on-manhattan-island/feed/ 0 The Dutch West India Company builds Fort Orange near the former site of Fort Nassau ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-build-fort-orange-upon-the-site-of-the-former-fort-nassau/ ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-build-fort-orange-upon-the-site-of-the-former-fort-nassau/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:18:53 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2226 c May 1624

Ft_Orange_-_painting_by__LE_Tantillo

Fort Orange Patroons House

Paintings by L F Tantillo

Also named for the House of Orange-Nassau of Holland

Presently Broadway and Pruyn Street, Albany adjacent Hudson River

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_orange

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/albany/fort-orange/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Orange-Nassau

]]> ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-build-fort-orange-upon-the-site-of-the-former-fort-nassau/feed/ 0 The Dutch West India Company relocate colonists to Manhattan ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-relocate-colonists-to-manhattan/ ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-relocate-colonists-to-manhattan/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:06:01 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2255 Considering a threat of attack  from other European colony powers, directors of the West India Company formulate a plan to protect the entrance to the North River (Hudson River). They move settlers from Nut Island (Governors Island)  to southern Manhattan where a citadel is laid out to and construction begins on Fort Amsterdam (present site of the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House). More settlers are relocated to the same area from Hudson Valley because of the Mohawk – Mahican War.

The fort is designated the capital of the New Netherland province during this same year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Amsterdam

https://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/history-and-heritage/digital-exhibitions/a-tour-of-new-netherland/manhattan/fort-amsterdam/

 

 

]]> ../../../the-dutch-west-india-company-relocate-colonists-to-manhattan/feed/ 0 Willem Verhulst is Director of New Netherland ../../../willem-verhulst-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/ ../../../willem-verhulst-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:25:24 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2290 c 1625 – c 1626

– The second appointed by the Dutch West India Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Verhulst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_New_Netherland

]]> ../../../willem-verhulst-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/feed/ 0 Director Peter Minuit negotiates the purchase of Manhattan ../../../new-amsterdam-director-general-peter-minuit-negotiates-the-purchase-of-manhattan-with/ ../../../new-amsterdam-director-general-peter-minuit-negotiates-the-purchase-of-manhattan-with/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 20:29:58 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2262 The_Purchase_of_Manhattan_Island

With a Mannahatta band of Lenape for trade goods worth 60 guilders on behalf of the West India Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Minuit

]]> ../../../new-amsterdam-director-general-peter-minuit-negotiates-the-purchase-of-manhattan-with/feed/ 0 Roeloff Jansen and Anneke Jans emigrate to New Netherland ../../../roeloff-jansen-and-anneke-jans-emigrate-to-new-netherland/ ../../../roeloff-jansen-and-anneke-jans-emigrate-to-new-netherland/#respond Sat, 12 Jul 2014 19:25:03 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2904 c 1630

– from Amsterdam with their two children Sara and Tryntje, their third child Lijntje dies before the trip

– They settle in the Manor of Rensselaerwyck, which extends on either side of the Hudson River which includes what is now Rensselaer, New York

– Janson and Jans have two more children in Rensselaerwyck; Sijtje and Jan

– Jansen farms for Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, the founder of the manor and one of the original directors of the Dutch West India Company

– while living there Roeloff is appointed magistrate by Van Rensselaer but is never sworn in nor serves

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor_of_Rensselaerswyck

https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/na/rensselaerswyck.html

Rensselaerwyck Manor Records, A Preliminary Inventory

 

 

 

]]> ../../../roeloff-jansen-and-anneke-jans-emigrate-to-new-netherland/feed/ 0 Sebastiaen Jansen Krol is Director of New Netherland ../../../sebastiaen-jansen-krol-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/ ../../../sebastiaen-jansen-krol-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:14:58 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2283 c 1632 – c 1633

– The fourth appointed by the Dutch West India Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastiaen_Jansen_Krol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_West_India_Company

]]> ../../../sebastiaen-jansen-krol-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/feed/ 0 Wouter van Twiller is Director of New Netherland ../../../wouter-van-twiller-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/ ../../../wouter-van-twiller-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:08:47 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2279 c 1633 – c 1638

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– The fifth appointed by the Dutch  West India Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_van_Twiller

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_New_Netherland

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