Resources for Native Americans and New Netherland and Dutch New York
Transcription and image of original document, Mohawl Deed of 1730
The Mohawk who made this land deal with the Anglo-Dutch settler Johannis Minderse, are one of the six nations of the Haudenosaunee, a group often mistakenly referred to as the Iroquois Confederacy.
New Netherland and Dutch New York overlapped with the territories of many different Native peoples, all with particular social and political customs who had long pre-colonial histories of diplomacy with one another.
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.
Additional resources for African Research in New Netherland and Early Dutch New York
The document that endentures Bet a negro wench of Jacob Tice aged 2 years 4 months to Tobias Ten Eyck in Montgomery County, NY
ANALYSIS: On the third line of this document the word “slave” is crossed out and replaced with the word “wench.” The error is mentioned in...
