Fort Amsterdam / Fort James / Fort Willem Hendrick / Fort William Henry / Fort Anne / Fort George – 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 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 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 Anneke Jans moves her family from Fort Amsterdam to Fort Orange ../../../anneke-jans-moves-her-family-from-fort-amsterdam-to-fort-orange/ ../../../anneke-jans-moves-her-family-from-fort-amsterdam-to-fort-orange/#respond Sat, 12 Jul 2014 21:53:10 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2926 – After hearing of husband Everadus Borgardus’ death

– Domine Megapolensis notes her arrival to Fort Orange with her nine living children, five of which  by her first husband, Roeloff Jansen

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