Fort Orange / Fort Nassau – 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 Sun, 13 Jul 2014 17:13:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 Hendrick Christiaensen builds Fort Nassau on the North River ../../../fort-nassau-a-dutch-trading-post-is-built-near-albany-in-mahican-indian-country/ ../../../fort-nassau-a-dutch-trading-post-is-built-near-albany-in-mahican-indian-country/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:15:40 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2203 c 1614

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Painting by L F Tantillo

– The first Dutch settlement in North America

– On Castle Island, in Mahican Indian Country, and site of a previous French Fortification from 1540 (presently Westerlo Island, annexed by Albany in 1926)

– Named for the House of Orange-Nassau of Holland

– Abandoned and rebuilt on more secure ground after flooding in 1617 and then abandoned altogether when the new site floods again in 1618

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Nassau_(North_River)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Island_(New_York)

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

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

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

]]> ../../../fort-nassau-a-dutch-trading-post-is-built-near-albany-in-mahican-indian-country/feed/ 0 The Mohawk / Mahican War begins ../../../the-mohawk-mahican-war-takes-place/ ../../../the-mohawk-mahican-war-takes-place/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 09:10:49 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2201 c 1624 – c 1628

Mohawks attack Mahicans to force open a corridor to a Dutch trading post at Fort Orange. The Mohawk have grown dependent on the trade goods they obtain there. They also wish to control access to trade at Fort Orange for surrounding Indians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Orange_(New_Netherland)

https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eth/summary/v051/51.4starna.html 

]]> ../../../the-mohawk-mahican-war-takes-place/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

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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 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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