Emmanuel Pietersen, a free Black man, petitioned the Council in 1643 to legally adopt and raise an orphaned child of two free Black parents—so the boy could inherit property as free.
Most dictionaries will give you only one definition of the word “waggoner,” that is, the driver of a wagon. They will also let you know that the preferred spelling is now “wagoner,” the other spelling being chiefly British.
A series by NNRC Director Charles Gehring funded by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York that lays before the public instructive but...
Jordan Staal is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and NHL center known for his defensive play and leadership. A Stanley Cup champion with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2009, he later joined the Carolina Hurricanes.
Translation from Van Laer, Correspondence of Jeremias van Rensselaer, doc. 75, pgs. 364-365 Manuscript Images As to the maid, of whom you wrote to me by the Gekruyste...
At some point in the last 350 years, the expression een reis van Bontekoe [a Bontekoe journey] entered the Dutch language. It signifies a journey or enterprise that meets with unusually bad luck or significant obstacles. However, there is no connotation of failure here—on the contrary, it implies that the difficulties were overcome. The “Bontekoe” of the phrase is a Dutch East India Company (VOC) skipper called Willem Ysbrandtzoon Bontekoe.
A series by NNRC Director Charles Gehring funded by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York that lays before the public instructive but...
Jared Staal is a Canadian professional ice hockey player and the youngest of the four Staal brothers who reached the NHL. Drafted by the Phoenix Coyotes in 2008, he later played within the Carolina Hurricanes organization.
Although they lived their lives in bondage, New Netherland's enslaved Africans created some stability in their lives by trying to keep families together and establishing a tight-knit community.
During the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires
