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1624 AD (search for this): chapter 13
on—more than the rest—would hear of no such matter. [This is all that is known of the fate of Henry Hudson. These events are supposed to have occurred near the south-east corner of James Bay. The narrative goes on to describe the terrible hardships endured by the mutinous crew, during which, Robert Juet and others died of starvation. The survivors reached Plymouth, England, in September, 1611.] Iv.—The Dutch settlement of the New Netherlands. [from early Dutch Chronicles.] [1624.] Numerous voyages realize so much profit for adventurers, that they discover other countries, which they afterwards settle and plant. Virginia, a country lying in 42 1/2° North latitude. is one of these. It was first peopled by the French, afterwards by the English, and is today a flourishing colony. The Lords States General Of Holland. observing the great abundance of their people, as well as their desire to plant other lands, allowed the West India Company to settle that same co
1761 AD (search for this): chapter 13
koning by the Gregorian Calendar was not adopted in England till 1753, but by the other nations of Europe much earlier, being Saturday, by the grace of God we safely arrived in the range of Dartmouth, in Devonshire, in the year 1609. Ii.—Indian traditions of Henry Hudson's arrival. [the following narrative was written in 1800, by Rev. John Heckewelder, for many years a missionary among the Indians; the traditions having been told to him, as he says, forty years earlier, that is, about 1761, a century and a half after the coming of Hudson.] The following account of the first arrival of Europeans at New York Island is verbatim as it was related to me by aged and respected Delawares, Monseys, and Mahicanni (otherwise called Mohegans, Mahicandus), near forty years ago. It is copied from notes and manuscripts taken on the spot. They say,— A long time ago, when there was no such thing known to the Indians as people with a white skin,— their expression,—some Indians who had b
1626 AD (search for this): chapter 13
Book XIII: Henry Hudson and the New Netherlands. (A. D. 1609-1626.) The extracts relating to Henry Hudson are reprinted from a very valuable book, containing many original documents in regard to him, and entitled Henry Hudson the Navigator. The original documents in which his career is recorded . . . with an Introduction by G. M. Asher, Ll.D. London, Hakluyt Society, 1859, pp. 77-93, 174-179, 117-123. The same narratives may be found in Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. III. There is a Lifds, thence to the Indian Islands, then towards the mainland of Virginia, steering right across, leaving in fourteen days the Bahamas on the left, and the Bermudas on the right hand, where the winds are variable with which the land is made .... [1626.] In our preceding treatise, we made mention of New Netherland and its colony, planted by the West India Company, situate in Virginia on the river, called by the French Montagne, and by us Mauritius, and that some families were sent thither, which
June 1st (search for this): chapter 13
), they believed they would soon want all their country, and which at this time was already the case. Iii.—The last voyage of Henry Hudson, and how he was set adrift in the ice by his men. [Hudson had discovered the bay which bears his name, and spent all winter amid the ice, remaining into the spring, until his provisions were about out, and his crew grew mutinous. One of the crew, Abacuk or Habaccuk Prickett, thus describes what followed.] Being thus in the ice, on Saturday, the one and twentieth of June, 1611 at night, Wilson the boatswain, and Henry Greene, came to me, lying in my cabin, lame, and told me that they and the rest of their associates would shift i.e., take out part of them. the company, and turn the master and all the sick men into the shallop, and let them shift for themselves; for there was not fourteen days victuals left for all the company. At that poor allowance they were at, and that there they lay, the master not caring to go one way or othe
1621 AD (search for this): chapter 13
rchas's Pilgrims, vol. III. There is a Life of Henry Hudson by Henry R. Cleveland in Sparks's American Biography, vol. x. Brodhead's History of New York and O'Callaghan's History of New Netherlands also contain much information concerning him. To show the result of Hudson's discoveries, I give also a series of extracts from early Dutch chronicles, describing in quaint language the first founding of the New Netherlands. It is translated from Wassenaer's Historie van Europa (Amsterdam, 1621-1632), and is taken from O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of New York, vol. III. pp. 27-28, 42-44. I.—Discovery of the Hudson River. [Hudson sailed from Amsterdam, on his third voyage, March 25, 1609. these extracts are from the diary of Robert Juet, one of his men, beginning on the day when they saw sandy hook, at the entrance of what is now New York harbor, Sept. 2, 1609.] Then the sun arose, and we steered away north again, and saw the land from the west by nort
1800 AD (search for this): chapter 13
seeing any land by the way, all the rest of this month of October; and on the seventh day of November, stilo novoa, New style. What was called the new style of reckoning by the Gregorian Calendar was not adopted in England till 1753, but by the other nations of Europe much earlier, being Saturday, by the grace of God we safely arrived in the range of Dartmouth, in Devonshire, in the year 1609. Ii.—Indian traditions of Henry Hudson's arrival. [the following narrative was written in 1800, by Rev. John Heckewelder, for many years a missionary among the Indians; the traditions having been told to him, as he says, forty years earlier, that is, about 1761, a century and a half after the coming of Hudson.] The following account of the first arrival of Europeans at New York Island is verbatim as it was related to me by aged and respected Delawares, Monseys, and Mahicanni (otherwise called Mohegans, Mahicandus), near forty years ago. It is copied from notes and manuscripts taken
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h information concerning him. To show the result of Hudson's discoveries, I give also a series of extracts from early Dutch chronicles, describing in quaint language the first founding of the New Netherlands. It is translated from Wassenaer's Historie van Europa (Amsterdam, 1621-1632), and is taken from O'Callaghan's Documentary History of the State of New York, vol. III. pp. 27-28, 42-44. I.—Discovery of the Hudson River. [Hudson sailed from Amsterdam, on his third voyage, March 25, 1609. these extracts are from the diary of Robert Juet, one of his men, beginning on the day when they saw sandy hook, at the entrance of what is now New York harbor, Sept. 2, 1609.] Then the sun arose, and we steered away north again, and saw the land from the west by north, to the north-west by north, all like broken islands; Sandy Hook. and our soundings were eleven and ten fathoms. A fathom is six feet. Then we luffed Sailed to windward. in for the shore, and fair by the shor
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