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Cape Henlopen (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ors of the Amsterdam chamber, bargained with the natives for the soil from Cape Henlopen to Chap. XV.} 1630. the mouth of Delaware River; in July, 1630, this purchof 1631 the larger vessel reached its des- 1631. tination, and just within Cape Henlopen, on Lewes Creek, planted a colony of more than thirty souls. The superintertford; but while he was claiming the 1649, 1650. country from Cape Cod to Cape Henlopen, there was danger that the New England men would stretch their Chap XV.} d afterwards, under cessions from the natives, extended its jurisdiction to Cape Henlopen. But 1658, 1659. did a city ever govern a province with forbearance? Theoration, Lord Baltimore renewed his claims to the country from Newcastle to Cape Henlopen; they were defended by his agents in Amsterdam and in America, and were eveuly. on the Delaware to the city of Amsterdam. The banks of the river from Cape Henlopen to the falls at Trenton, certainly remained under the jurisdiction of the D
Windsor, Conn. (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
an English ship, which 1633. sailed up the river before his eyes. The rush of Puritan emigrants to New England had quickened the movements of the Dutch on the Connecticut, which they undoubtedly were the first to discover and to occupy Chap. XV.} 1633 Jan. 8. The soil round Hartford was purchased of the natives, and a fort was erected Albany Records, II. 157. on land within the present limits of that city, some months before the pilgrims of Plymouth colony raised their block-house at Windsor, and more than two years before the people of Hooker and Haynes began the commonwealth of Connecticut. 1635 To whom did the country belong? Like the banks of the Hudson, it had been first explored, and even occupied, by the Dutch; but should a log-hut and a few straggling soldiers seal a territory against other emigrants? The English planters were on a soil over which England had ever claimed the sovereignty, and of which the English monarch had made a grant; they were there with their w
North America (search for this): chapter 5
Japan, and the epoch of their alliance with the Emperor of Ceylon. In 1611 their ships once again braved the frosts of the Arctic circle in search of a new way to China; and it was a Dutch discoverer, Schouten, from Hoorn, Chap. XV.} 1616. who, in 1616, left the name of his own beloved seaport on the southernmost point of South America. In the same year a report was made of further dis- Ms. from E. B. O'Callaghan. Brodhead's Hist. of N. Y. 79, 80. O Callaghan's Hist. coveries in North America. Three Netherlanders—who went up the Mohawk valley, struck a branch head's Of the, Delaware, and made their way to Indians near the site of Philadelphia—were found by Cornelis Hendricksen, as he came in the Unrest to explore the bay and rivers of Delaware. On his return to Holland in 1616, the merchants by whom he had been employed claimed the discovery of the country between thirty-eight and forty degrees. He described the inhabitants as trading in sables, furs, and other skins; the l
Sandy Hook (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
orthernmost, which was probably Rockaway inlet, but finding only ten feet of water on its bar, he cast about to the southward, and almost at the time when Champlain was invading New York from the North, he sounded his way to an anchorage within Sandy Hook. On the fourth the ship went further up the Horse Shoe to a very good harbor near the New Jersey shore; and that same day the people of the country came on board to traffic for knives and beads. On the fifth a landing was made from the Halfkes, which have their springs in the heart of the continent; within its own limits the sources of rivers that flow to the Gulfs of Mexico and St. Lawrence, and to the Bays of Chesapeake and Delaware; of which, long before Europeans anchored off Sandy Hook, the warriors of the Five Nations availed themselves in their excursions to Quebec, to the Ohio, or the Susquehanna With just sufficient difficulties to irritate, and not enough to dishearten, New York united richest lands with the highest ada
Leicestershire (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5
ishable foundation. Ideas once generated live forever. With the recognition of maritime liberty, Holland disappears from our history; when, after the lapse of more than a century, this principle comes in jeopardy, Holland, the mother of four of our states, will rise up as our ally, bequeathing to the new federal republic the defence of commercial freedom which she had vindicated against Spain, and for which we shall see her prosperity fall a victim to England. On the final transfer of New Netherland to Eng- Oct. 31. land, after a military occupation of fifteen months by the Dutch, the brother of Charles II. resumed the possession of New York, and Carteret appears once more as proprietary of the eastern moiety of New Jersey; but the banks of the Delaware were reserved for men who had been taught by the uneducated son of a poor Leicestershire weaver to seek the principle of God in their own hearts, and to build the city of humanity by obeying the nobler instincts of human nature.
Japan (Japan) (search for this): chapter 5
ge ship, William Barentsen, whom Grotius honored as the peer of Columbus, coasted Nova Zembla to the seventy-seventh degree, without finding a passage. Netherlanders in the service of Portugal had 1595. visited India, Malacca, China, and even Japan. Of these Cornelius Houtman, in April, 1595, sailed for India by way of the Cape of Good Hope, and before his return, circumnavigated Java. In the same year Jacob van Heemskerk, the great mariner and naval hero, aided by Barentsen, renewed the ounds to their enterprise. The world seemed not too large for their commerce under the genial influence of liberty, achieved after a struggle, longer and more desperate than that of Greece with Persia. This is the golden age of their trade with Japan, and the epoch of their alliance with the Emperor of Ceylon. In 1611 their ships once again braved the frosts of the Arctic circle in search of a new way to China; and it was a Dutch discoverer, Schouten, from Hoorn, Chap. XV.} 1616. who, in 1
South America (search for this): chapter 5
er the genial influence of liberty, achieved after a struggle, longer and more desperate than that of Greece with Persia. This is the golden age of their trade with Japan, and the epoch of their alliance with the Emperor of Ceylon. In 1611 their ships once again braved the frosts of the Arctic circle in search of a new way to China; and it was a Dutch discoverer, Schouten, from Hoorn, Chap. XV.} 1616. who, in 1616, left the name of his own beloved seaport on the southernmost point of South America. In the same year a report was made of further dis- Ms. from E. B. O'Callaghan. Brodhead's Hist. of N. Y. 79, 80. O Callaghan's Hist. coveries in North America. Three Netherlanders—who went up the Mohawk valley, struck a branch head's Of the, Delaware, and made their way to Indians near the site of Philadelphia—were found by Cornelis Hendricksen, as he came in the Unrest to explore the bay and rivers of Delaware. On his return to Holland in 1616, the merchants by whom he had been e
Red Hook (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
Manhattanville. The flood-tide of the next morning and of evening brought him near Yonkers. On the fourteenth a strong south-east wind wafted him rapidly into the Highlands. At daybreak, on the fifteenth, mists hung over the landscape, but as they rose, the sun revealed the neighborhood of West Point. With a south wind the Half Moon soon emerged from the mountains that rise near the water's edge; sweeping upwards, it passed the elbow at Hyde Park, and at night anchored a little below Red Hook, within the shadow of the majestic Catskill range, which it was noticed stands at a distance from the river. Trafficking with the natives, who were very loving, taking in fresh water, grounding at low tide on a shoal, the Netherlanders, on the evening of the seventeenth, reached no higher than the latitude of about 42°, 18′, just above the present city of Hudson. The next day Hudson went on shore in one of the boats of the natives with an aged chief of a small tribe of the River Indians
Malacca (Melaka, Malaysia) (search for this): chapter 5
st of Siberia fell away to the south-east, hoped to shorten the voyage at least eight thousand miles by using a north-eastern route. A double expedition was therefore sent forth on discovery; two flyboats vainly tried to pass through the straits of Veigatz, while, in a large ship, William Barentsen, whom Grotius honored as the peer of Columbus, coasted Nova Zembla to the seventy-seventh degree, without finding a passage. Netherlanders in the service of Portugal had 1595. visited India, Malacca, China, and even Japan. Of these Cornelius Houtman, in April, 1595, sailed for India by way of the Cape of Good Hope, and before his return, circumnavigated Java. In the same year Jacob van Heemskerk, the great mariner and naval hero, aided by Barentsen, renewed the search on the north-east, but attempted in vain to pass to the south Chap. XV.} of Nova Zembla. The republic, disheartened by the repeated failure, refused to fit out another expedition; but the city of Amsterdam, in 1596,
Lewes Creek (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
's History, 205, 207, 220. a ship of eighteen guns, commanded by Pieter Heyes and laden with emigrants, store of seeds, cattle, and agricultural implements, embarked from the Texel, partly to cover the southern shore of Delaware Bay with fields of wheat and tobacco, and partly for the whale-fishery on the coast. A yacht which went in company, was taken by a Dunkirk privateer; early in the spring of 1631 the larger vessel reached its des- 1631. tination, and just within Cape Henlopen, on Lewes Creek, planted a colony of more than thirty souls. The superintendence of the settlement was entrusted to Gillis Hosset. A little fort was built and well beset with palisades; the arms of Holland were affixed to a pillar; the country received the name of Swaanendael; the water, that of Godyn's Bay. The voyage of Heyes was the cradling of a state. That Delaware exists as a separate commonwealth, is due to this colony. According to English rule, occupancy was necessary to complete a title to
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