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Nahant (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
nearly a century before, had named Claudia. After exploring both channels of the island, which owes to him the name of Roode Eiland, now Rhode Island, the mariner from Holland imposed the names of places in his native land on groups in the Atlantic, which, years before, Gosnold and other English navigators had visited. The Unrest sailed beyond Cape Cod, and while John Smith was making maps of the bays and coasts of Maine and Massachusetts, Adriaen Block traced the shore as far at least as Nahant. Then leaving the American-built yacht at Cape Cod, to be used by Cornelis Hendricksen in the fur-trade, Block sailed in Christiaensen's ship for Holland. The States General, in an Assembly where Olden Barneveldt was present, readily granted to the united Chap. XV.} 1614. company of merchants interested in these discoveries, a three years monopoly of trade with the territory between Virginia and New France, from forty to forty Brodhead's Colon'l Documents, 110. five degrees of latitud
China (China) (search for this): chapter 5
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 beford Hudson once more on a 1608. voyage, to ascertain if the seas which divide Spitzbergen from Nova Zembla, open a path to China. The failure of two expeditions daunted Hudson's 1609. employers; they could not daunt the great navigator. The disccommanded by Hudson and manned by a mixed crew of Netherlanders and Englishmen, his son being of the number, set sail for China by way of the north-east. On the fifth day of May he had attained the height of the north cape of Norway; but fogs and fh 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 s
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
ther; and he heard tales of the Horicans, who dwelt in the west, and moved over lakes in bark canoes. The Pequods he found on the banks of their river. At Montauk Point, then occupied by a savage nation, he reached the ocean, proving the land east of the Sound to be an island. Thus far he was a discoverer. The island which bears his name, Verazzano, nearly a century before, had named Claudia. After exploring both channels of the island, which owes to him the name of Roode Eiland, now Rhode Island, the mariner from Holland imposed the names of places in his native land on groups in the Atlantic, which, years before, Gosnold and other English navigators had visited. The Unrest sailed beyond Cape Cod, and while John Smith was making maps of the bays and coasts of Maine and Massachusetts, Adriaen Block traced the shore as far at least as Nahant. Then leaving the American-built yacht at Cape Cod, to be used by Cornelis Hendricksen in the fur-trade, Block sailed in Christiaensen's shi
South River, N. C. (North Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
. XV.} 1623. in 1623, was the epoch of its zealous efforts at colonization. In the spring of that year The New Netherland, a ship of two hundred and sixty tons burden, carried out thirty families. They were chiefly Walloons, Protestant fugitives from Belgian provinces. April was gone before the vessel reached Manhattan. A party under the command of Cornelis Jacobsen May, who has left his name on the southern county and cape of New Jersey, ascended the river Delaware, then known as the South River of the Dutch, and on Timber Creek, a stream that enters the Delaware a few miles below Camden, built Fort Nassau. At the same time Adriaen Joris, on the site of Albany, threw up and completed the fort named Orange. There eighteen families were settled; their huts of bark rose round the fort, and were protected by covenants of friendship with the various tribes of Indians. The next year, 1624, may be taken as the era of 1624. a continuous civil government, with Cornelis Jacobsen May
Canada (Canada) (search for this): chapter 5
s Vander Donk vertoont dit Nieuvve Land? They exulted in the possession of an admirable territory, that needed no embankments against the ocean. They were proud of its vast extent, from New England to Maryland, from the sea to the Great River of Canada, and the remote north-western wilderness. They sounded with exultation the channel of the deep stream, which was no longer shared with the Swedes; they counted with delight its many lovely runs of water, on which the beaver built their villages;ve Nations, Hudson and the Dutch appeared at the south as their friends. The Mohawk chiefs now came down to congratulate their brethren on the recovery of their colony. We have always, said they, been as one flesh. If the French come down from Canada, we will join with the Dutch nation, and live and die with them; and the words of love were confirmed by a belt of wampum. Albany Records, XXII. 211 &c. New 1673, 1674. York was once more a province of the Netherlands. The moment at which
Raritan (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
efuge south of Raritan Bay. More than a year earlier, New England Puritans, 1663 March 26. Albany Records IV. 415. sojourners on Long Island, solicited of the Dutch, and, as the records prove, obtained leave to establish on the banks of the Raritan and the Minnisink, their cherished institutions, and even their criminal jurisprudence. Soon 1664 Sept. 20. after the surrender, a similar petition was renewed to the representative of the duke of York; and, as the parties, heedless of the forwn as the Elizabethtown purchase, and led to abundant litigation. In April, 1665, a further 1665 April 8. patent was issued, under the same authority, to William Goulding and others, for the region extending from Sandy Hook to the mouth of the Raritan. For a few months, East New Jersey bore the name of Albania. Nicolls could boast that on the new pur- Nov. chases from the Indians, three towns were beginning; and under grants from the Dutch and from the governor of New York, the coast from
Switzerland (Switzerland) (search for this): chapter 5
ntries to New Netherland, we should be carried not only to the banks of the Rhine and the borders of the German Sea, but to the Protestants who escaped from France after the massacre of Bartholomew's eve; and to those earlier inquirers who were swayed by the voice of Huss in the heart of Bohemia. New York was always a city of the world. Its settlers were relics of the first fruits of the reformation, chosen from the Belgic provinces and England, from France and Bohemia, from Germany and Switzerland, from Piedmont and the Italian Alps. The religious sects, which, in the middle ages, had been fostered by the municipal liberties of the south of France, were the harbingers of modern freedom, and had therefore been sacrificed to the inexorable feudalism of the north. After a bloody conflict, the plebeian reformers, crushed by the merciless leaders of the military aristocracy, escaped to the highlands that divide France and Italy. Preserving the discipline of a benevolent, ascetic mo
Russia (Russia) (search for this): chapter 5
les were offered to private enterprise. Ten years afterwards, William Wsselinx, 1591. who had lived some years in Castile, Portugal, and the Azores, proposed a West India Company; but the dangers of the undertaking were still too appalling. In 1594 the port of Lisbon was closed by the 1594. King of Spain against the Low Countries. Their carrying trade in Indian goods was lost, unless their ships could penetrate to the seas of Asia. A company of merchants, believing that the coast 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, Chin
Esopus (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 5
, that Connecticut, by its charter, extended to the Pacific. Where, then, demanded the Dutch negotiators, where is New Netherland?—And the agents of Connecticut, with provoking indifference, replied, We do not know. Journal of the Envoys to Hartford, in Albany Records, XVI. 292, 315. Compare also Trumbull's Connecticut and the numerous documents in Hazard. These unavailing discussions were conducted during the horrors of a half-year's war with the savages round Chap XV.} 1663 June Esopus. The rising village on the banks of that stream was laid waste; many of its inhabitants murdered or made captive; and it was only on the approach of winter that an armistice restored tranquillity. Albany Records, XVI. 194—284. The Nov. colony had no friend but the Mohawks. The Dutch, said the faithful warriors of the Five Nations, are our brethren. With them we keep but one council fire; we are united by a covenant chain. Ibid. XVIII. 102, 103; XIX. 97. The contests with the na
Cambria (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 5
but infamy attached to the name of Kieft, the author of the carnage; the emigrants desired to reject him as their governor; the West India Company disclaimed his barbarous policy. About two years after the peace, he embarked for 1647 Europe in a large and richly-laden vessel; but the man 1648 of blood was not destined to revisit the shores of Holland. The ship in which he sailed, unable to breast the fury of elements as merciless as his own passions, was dashed in pieces on the coast of Wales, and the guilty Kieft was overwhelmed by the waves. Hubbard, 444. 1648 A better day dawned on New Netherland, when the brave and honest Stuyvesant, recently the vicedirector of Curacao, wounded in the West Indies, in the attack on St. Martin, a soldier of experience, a scholar of some learning, was promoted for his services, 1646 and entered on the government of the province. Sad ex- 1647 perience dictated a milder system towards the natives; May 11. and it was resolved to govern t
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