New York Harbor – 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 English navigator Henry Hudson, hired by the Dutch Republic, explores the New York Harbor and 100 miles upstream ../../../henry-hudson-hired-by-the-dutch-explores-the-new-york-harbor-and-about-100-miles-upstream/ ../../../henry-hudson-hired-by-the-dutch-explores-the-new-york-harbor-and-about-100-miles-upstream/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 01:54:48 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2133 Half_Moon_in_Hudson

– On the ship Halve Maen (Half Moon)

– Hudson names the river Mauritius River, North River is commonly used

– Presently the Hudson River

Covertly, Hudson is seeking the North West Passage which would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. Rather, he makes contact with native Americans in the region and reports signs that it could be a significant source for beaver pelts which has a lucrative market in Europe.

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

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

]]> ../../../henry-hudson-hired-by-the-dutch-explores-the-new-york-harbor-and-about-100-miles-upstream/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 Peter Stuyvesant provisionally cedes New Netherland to the English ../../../peter-stuyvesant-provisionally-cedes-new-netherland-to-the-english/ ../../../peter-stuyvesant-provisionally-cedes-new-netherland-to-the-english/#respond Mon, 03 Mar 2014 02:19:57 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2414 – When four English frigates sail into New Amsterdam’s harbor (New York Harbor) and demand New Netherland’s surrender

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Stuyvesant leaving New Amsterdam

– On September 6, 1664 his delegates sign the official Articles of Capitulation

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