Jaap Jacobs - The Worlds of the Seventeenth-century Hudson Valley

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.)History17th century. 2. DutchHudson River Valley (N.Y. and N.J.)History17th century. 3. New NetherlandHistory. I. Jacobs, Jaap, 1963 author, editor of compilation. II. Roper, L. H. (Louis H.) author, editor of compilation.

F127.H8W95 2013

974.73dc23

2013022609

10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Contents

Jaap Jacobs

L. H. Roper

Kees Zandvliet

Timothy J. Shannon

Paul Otto

Jon W. Parmenter

Leslie Choquette

Jaap Jacobs

Lauric Henneton

Willem Frijhoff

Claudia Schnurmann

Joyce D. Goodfriend

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Preface and Acknowledgments

In September 2009, the Center for Regional Research, Education, and Outreach (CRREO) at the State University of New YorkNew 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 regions 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.

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