Have you ever wondered about the name of the New Netherland Institute’s newsletter, or its curious spelling? Read on…
The document that endentures Bet a negro wench of Jacob Tice aged 2 years 4 months to Tobias Ten Eyck in Montgomery County, NY
The law did not immediately free any enslaved people. Instead, it guaranteed that children born to enslaved mothers after July 4, 1799 would be technically free but continue to live under their mother’s enslavers as indentured servants until they reached the age of 28 for males or 25 for females.
The famous Dutch navigator, cartographer, and explorer Willem Barentsz led three expeditions into the Arctic in the last years of the sixteenth century in search of a northeastern trade route to Asia. Accompanying Barentsz on the first two voyages was a Dutch navigator whose name has not survived to the present day with such prominence as his fellow explorer. Unlike Barentsz, no sea was named for Cornelis Corneliszoon Nay, who is known to history through his association with two of the Barentsz expeditions.
Studying African presence in Euro American colonial history is about striking a balance between acknowledging the horrors of slavery and finding the traces of humanity and resilience in the archive.
One the many myths that blur the story of the Dutch “purchase” of Manhattan—one that is firmly cemented in the popular psyche—says that the price was mere “beads and baubles.”
Additional resources for African Research in New Netherland and Early Dutch New York
Perhaps the most peculiar name of a neighborhood in the Bronx—thee northernmost of the five boroughs of New York City— is Spuyten Duyvil.
Transcription and image of original document, Mohawl Deed of 1730
