The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century Hudson Valley

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This book provides an in-depth introduction to the issues involved in the expansion of European interests to the Hudson River Valley, the cultural interaction that took place there, and the colonization of the region. Written in accessible language by leading scholars, these essays incorporate the latest historical insights as they explore the new world in which American Indians and Europeans interacted, the settlement of the Dutch colony that ensued from the exploration of the Hudson River, and the development of imperial and other networks which came to incorporate the Hudson Valley.
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

I. European Worlds

1. The Seventeenth-Century Empire of the Dutch Republic, c. 1590–1672
Jaap Jacobs

2. The Seventeenth-Century English Empire
L. H. Roper

3. Dutch Cartography and the Atlantic World at the Time of Henry Hudson
Kees Zandvliet

II. American Worlds

4. Avenue of Empire: The Hudson Valley in an Atlantic Context
Timothy J. Shannon

5. Henry Hudson, the Munsees, and the Wampum Revolution
Paul Otto

6. Separate Vessels: Iroquois Engagements with the Dutch of New Netherland, c. 1613–1664
Jon W. Parmenter

III. The Establishment of Colonial Worlds

7. The Other 400th Anniversary: Samuel de Champlain and the French Atlantic Empire
Leslie Choquette

8. “In Such a Far Distant Land, Separated from All the Friends”: Why Were the Dutch in New Netherland?
Jaap Jacobs

9. The House of Hope in the Valley of Discord: Connecticut Geopolitics and “Anglo-Dutch” Relations (1613–1654)
Lauric Henneton

IV. The Formation of Atlantic Worlds

10. Religion and Toleration in Old and New Netherland
Willem Frijhoff

11. Indian-European Networks and Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Claudia Schnurmann

12. Merging the Two Streams of Migration to New Netherland
Joyce D. Goodfriend

List of Contributors
Index

Sujets

• USA
• United States of America
• Local history
• Region
• Indigenous peoples
• 17th century
• History of the Americas
• Regional
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 08 mai 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438450995
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century
Hudson Valley
SUNY SERIES, AN AMERICAN REGION: STUDIES IN THE HUDSON VALLEY

THOMAS S. WERMUTH, EDITOR
The Worlds of the Seventeenth-Century
Hudson Valley
Edited by
Jaap Jacobs
and
L. H. Roper
Covert Art: Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova (1635) by William Janzsoon Blaeu, courtesy of the Boston Public Library ID# 10053
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The worlds of the seventeenth-century Hudson Valley / edited by Jaap Jacobs and L.H. Roper. p. cm. — (SUNY series, an American region : studies in the Hudson Valley)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-5097-1 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)—History—17th century. 2. Dutch—Hudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)—History—17th century. 3. New Netherland—History. I. Jacobs, Jaap, 1963– author, editor of compilation. II. Roper, L. H. (Louis H.) author, editor of compilation.
F127.H8W95 2013
974.7’3—dc23
2013022609
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
I EUROPEAN WORLDS
1 The Seventeenth-Century Empire of the Dutch Republic, c. 1590–1672
Jaap Jacobs
2 The Seventeenth-Century English Empire
L. H. Roper
3 Dutch Cartography and the Atlantic World at the Time of Henry Hudson
Kees Zandvliet
II AMERICAN WORLDS
4 Avenue of Empire: The Hudson Valley in an Atlantic Context
Timothy J. Shannon
5 Henry Hudson, the Munsees, and the Wampum Revolution
Paul Otto
6 Separate Vessels: Iroquois Engagements with the Dutch of New Netherland, c. 1613–1664
Jon W. Parmenter
III THE ESTABLISHMENT OF COLONIAL WORLDS
7 The Other 400 th Anniversary: Samuel de Champlain and the French Atlantic Empire
Leslie Choquette
8 “In Such a Far Distant Land, Separated from All the Friends”: Why Were the Dutch in New Netherland?
Jaap Jacobs
9 The House of Hope in the Valley of Discord: Connecticut Geopolitics and “Anglo-Dutch” Relations (1613–1654)
Lauric Henneton
IV THE FORMATION OF ATLANTIC WORLDS
10 Religion and Toleration in Old and New Netherland
Willem Frijhoff
11 Indian-European Networks and Atlantic Trade in the Seventeenth Century
Claudia Schnurmann
12 Merging the Two Streams of Migration to New Netherland
Joyce D. Goodfriend
List of Contributors
Index
List of Illustrations
1. Pieter Isaacsz and Carel van Mander, “Personification of Amsterdam: center of world trade” (ca. 1604–ca. 1607). Image courtesy of the Amsterdam Museum .
2. Werner van den Valckert, “Soldiers of the civic guard company of Captain Albert Coenraetsz Burgh and Lieutenant Pieter Evertsz Hulft” (1625). Image courtesy of the Amsterdam Museum .
3. Willem Jansz and Joan Blaeu, “Insulae Americanae in Oceano Septentrionali” (1635). Image courtesy of the Amsterdam Museum .
4. Govert Flinck, “Portrait of Gerard Hulft” (1654). Image courtesy of the Amsterdam Museum .
5. Adriaen Block and Hessel Gerritsz, “Map of New Netherland” (1616). Image courtesy of Amsterdam Museum .
6. Evert Gijsbertsz, “Manuscript chart of America” (c. 1596). Image courtesy of Amsterdam Museum .
7. Alfred Fredericks, “Peter Minuit purchasing Manhattan from the Lenape” (1910). Greenwich Village History , accessed 19 February 2013 , http://gvh.aphdigital.org/items/show/1465 .
8. Benjamin West, “Penn’s Treaty with the Indians” (1770–1772) . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Treaty_of_Penn_with_Indians_by_Benjamin_West.jpg , accessed 19 February 2013 .
9. Nicolaes Visscher, Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula multis in locis emendate (1651–1656) .
10. Detail of the Van Bergen overmantel, circa 1729. Image published by permission of the Fenimore Art Museum, New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, New York . Photograph by Richard Walker .
11. Hudson-Fulton Tricentennial Parade Float, “The Indian Period” from Edward Hagaman Hall, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration 1909: The Fourth Annual Report of the Hudson-Fulton Celebration Commission to the Legislature of the State of New York, Transmitted to the Legislature May twentieth, nineteen ten (2 vols., Albany, 1910), 2:629 .
12. Iroquois Performers at the Columbia Lawn Fete from Hall, The Hudson-Fulton Celebration 1909 , 2:711 .
13. Map of Iroquoia reprinted with permission from Jon Parmenter, The Edge of the Woods: Iroquoia, 1534–1701 (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2010), p. 42 .
14. Map of the Connecticut River Interface (map by author) .
15. The Buzzards Bay Rendezvous (map by author) .
16. Map of diversions in the fur trade (map by author) .
17. Willem Jansz Blaeu, Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova (1635) .
18. Map of primary and secondary zones of wampum production (map by author, with assistance from Paul Otto) .
19. Seal of New Netherland (1901) . http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:seal_of_new_netherland.jpg .
Preface and Acknowledgments
In September 2009, the Center for Regional Research, Education, and Outreach (CRREO) at the State University of New York—New Paltz, as part of the four hundredth anniversary commemorations of the arrival of Henry Hudson in the river that today bears his name, invited thirteen scholars from Europe and the United States to participate in a symposium on “Henry Hudson, New Netherland, and Atlantic History.” In addition to presenting papers on their respective areas of expertise, the academics participated in workshops, directed by Dr. Dennis Maika, which provided a rare opportunity for the educators who attended the symposium to interact intensively with professional historians and to discuss both substantive and pedagogical ideas for learning about the world from which Hudson came, the “new” world with which he and other Europeans interacted, and the settlement of the Dutch colony that ensued from his exploration of “his” river. This symposium was made possible through the good offices of New York State Assemblyman Kevin Cahill.
As part of this initiative, twelve of the participants have contributed essays to this volume that expand upon their symposium presentations. The contributors have also provided primary source materials from the workshops that supplement their papers and provide further accessibility to the seventeenth-century history of the Hudson Valley. Our intention here is to provide teachers and others interested in this period of the region’s past with an in-depth introduction and ready reference to the issues involved in the expansion of European interests to the Hudson River and the colonization of its environs.
To further these goals, we have arranged the volume in accordance with the symposium program by dividing the contributions into four parts with three essays in each. The first part, “European Worlds,” provides insights into the European contexts, including cartographical, which gave rise to the career of Hudson and the early seventeenth-century exploration of North America. The second group of essays, “American Worlds,” discusses the American Indian societies with which European explorers and African and European settlers came into contact and they track the history of contact between natives and newcomers in the Hudson Valley and the effects of interaction on American Indian, African, and European people. The third set of papers, “The Establishment of Colonial Worlds,” analyzes the formation of and relations between the founded colonies by the Dutch, English, and French in New Netherland and the surrounding area. The final group of contributions, “The Formation of Atlantic Networks,” considers social and economic developments in the seventeenth-century Hudson Valley from wider perspectives in order to provide a better understanding of the development and character of African-American and Euro-American communities and of the character of religious belief and practice in the area.
Although we intend this division to set out the contributions into coherent categories, it should not be regarded, however as a strict segregation. Many of the contributions share themes and analyses that transcend their placement here.
Joyce Goodfriend first published an expanded version of her symposium paper in volume 92, no. 3, of New York History (2011) and we acknowledge with thanks the kind permission of the New York State Historical Association to republish her paper here.
Abbreviations CSPC W. Noel Sainsbury, et al. (eds.), Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: America and West Indies . DRCHNY E. B. O’Callaghan and B. Fernow