An award-winning booklet that recounts the story of the New Netherland Project
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Translation from Van Laer, Council Minutes, Volume IV, 1638-1649, doc. 183, pg. 212-213 The 25th of February We, Willem Kieft, director general, and the council...
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Margarita “Peggy” Schuyler (1758–1801) was a member of the prominent Schuyler family of Albany, New York. She was the daughter of Revolutionary War general Philip Schuyler and the sister of Angelica Schuyler Church and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. Peggy married Stephen Van Rensselaer III, patroon of Rensselaerswyck.
Unlike the plantation systems of the southern and Caribbean colonies, New Netherland's economy did not rely on a cash crop cultivated by unfree laborers. Nevertheless, the enslaved population proved very valuable to the colony's growth and development.
Philip Jeremiah Schuyler (1768–1835) was an American politician and agriculturalist from New York. The son of Revolutionary War general Philip Schuyler, he served one term as a Federalist in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819.
Between 1609 and 1664, over 150 ships made 250 voyages between the Dutch Republic and New Netherland, transporting people, provisions, and correspondence, forging vital connections that sustained colonial life and linked the colony to its European center.
Pieter Schuyler (1657–1724) was a colonial leader in early New York and the first mayor of Albany after the city was incorporated in 1686. A military officer and diplomat with the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) nations, he later served twice as acting governor of the Province of New York.
