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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Netherland. (search)
e country was named New Netherland. This was before the incorporation of the Dutch West India Company. In 1623, New Netherland was made a province or county of Holland, and the States-General granted it the armorial distinction of a count. The seal of New Netherland bore as a device a shield with the figure of a beaver in the centre of it, surmounted by the coronet of a count, and encircled by the words, Sigillum Novi Belgii. While Wouter Van Twiller was governor of New Netherland, Jacob Eelkins, the Dutch West India Company's former commandant at Fort Orange, entered the mouth of the Hudson in an English vessel (April 18, 1633), and avowed his determination to ascend the river and trade with the Indians. He was in the English service, and claimed that the country belonged to the English, because it had been discovered by a subject of England, Hudson. Van Twiller ordered the Orange flag to be raised over Fort Amsterdam as the best defiance of the intruder. Eelkins as promptl
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New York, (search)
ounty......October, 1615 They attack the Iroquois castle at Onondaga Lake, near Liverpool, Onondaga county, and are repulsed Oct. 10-16, 1615 A trading-post fortified at the mouth of the Tawasentha (Normans Kill) Creek, near Albany, by Jacob Eelkins; first formal treaty between the Indians and the Dutch......1615 New Netherland charter expires; not renewed by the States-General......Jan. 1, 1618 Fort Orange built (South Market Street, Albany)......1623 New Netherland a province ish territory......1632 Eendragt released......May 27, 1632 Wouter Van Twiller, clerk of the West India Company, marries a niece of Kiliaen Van Rensselaer; made governor......1633 Friendly intercourse with the Virginians......1633 Jacob Eelkins (the same person who had previously established a trading-post up the Hudson) visits Manhattan in the William, a London vessel from New Plymouth, and sails up the Hudson to Fort Orange in defiance of the governor (the first English vessel to