Resources for Native Americans and New Netherland and Dutch New York
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.
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 credit for golf in its modern form is generally given to the Scots, but they certainly did not invent it from scratch.
When Kiliaen van Rensselaer purchased the land for his patroonship on the upper Hudson in 1631, Fort Orange--the Dutch West India Company's permanent trading post in the region--was seven years old.
The credit for golf in its modern form is generally given to the Scots, but they certainly did not invent it from scratch.
The credit for golf in its modern form is generally given to the Scots, but they certainly did not invent it from scratch.
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.
Have you ever wondered about the name of the New Netherland Institute’s newsletter, or its curious spelling? Read on…
