The New Netherland Institute is grateful to the New York State Archives for allowing us to link to the images in their collection. We are also grateful to the Holland Society, which holds the copyright of the translations of New Netherland Documents at the New York State Archives, for permission to reproduce the translations here.
William B. Eerdmans, a Dutch immigrant arriving in 1902, founded the William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company in Grand Rapids. Beginning as a theological bookseller, he built a leading Calvinist publishing house known for influential biblical scholarship.
The Ulster County Archives Dutch Records Index is an index to the English translations of the Dutch court records of Wiltwyck 1661-1709. The index was first published...
Thomas Edison was an entrepreneurial inventor who transformed existing ideas into practical, commercially successful products. Holding 1,093 U.S. patents, he pioneered team-based innovation and achieved extraordinary success despite having only three months of formal education.
The Engel Sluiter Collection at UC Berkeley contains research and transcriptions (1930–2001) on Dutch, Spanish, and colonial maritime history across the Americas, Africa, the Caribbean, and Arctic regions.
Derek Van Eck was an American investment manager and commodities trader who co-managed Van Eck Global with his brother Jan. A Williams College and Northwestern graduate, he helped guide the family investment firm before his death in 2010.
The Simon Hart Chronology represents summaries of notarial records relating to New Netherland located in the Municipal Archives of Amsterdam. In the 1650s the notaries of Amsterdam were directed, upon retirement or for other reasons, to deposit their protocols in the municipal archives for safekeeping. Simon Hart, during his tenure as chief archivist, spent his free time in the “Depot” of the archives, searching through the protocols
The Annotated Bibliography of the Archaeology of the Delaware River Valley highlights archaeological research related to the Middle and Lower Delaware River Valley (at and below Trenton,...
John Van Eck was a pioneer in international mutual fund investing and founder of International Investors Incorporated in 1955, later known as Van Eck Global. A Williams College and Harvard MBA graduate, he helped popularize global equity and gold investing.
The Annotated Bibliography of New Netherland Archeology in Rensselaer and Albany Counties, New York summarizes the contents of written resources concerning archeological finds related to Dutch...
