SITE INDEX

Explore

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• Digital Exhibitions
  • New Netherland Legacy
    • Introduction
    • A Cultural Survival
    • Social Legacy
    • Political Legacy
    • Law and Jurisprudence
    • The Legacy of Language
    • Religion
    • Art and Architecture
    • Customs, Cooking, and Folklore
    • Economic Legacy
    • Further Readings
  • The Dutch Among the Natives
    • American Indian–Dutch Relations
    • Landscapes and Environment
    • First Encounter, First Impressions
    • Native Peoples and Their Places
    • Occupying the Land—Territory, Title, Alienation
    • Pestilence and Plague
    • Sewant or Wampum
    • Cooperation and Conflict
    • The Fur Trade
    • The English Takeover
  • Arent van Curler & the Flatts
    • Introduction
    • Formulating a Plan
    • Starting to Build
    • Life at the Flatts
    • The Best Farm
    • Heart of the Fur Trade
    • The Farmhouse
    • A Burgher’s Life
    • Picturing the Flatts
    • Trading with the Mohawks
    • The Flatts Today
    • The Documents
    • Gallery of Artifacts
  • New Amsterdam Kitchen
  • How to Explore Your Ancestry
    • Vital Records
    • Migrations
    • Daily Life
    • Occupations
    • Commerce
    • Land & Property
    • Wills & Estates
    • Using Timelines
    • The Documents
    • Gallery of Artifacts
•  Slavery – Introduction
  • New Research on Slavery
    • The Slave Ship Gideon and the African Captives it transported to New Netherland (2020)
    • A Poisonous Threat: Slavery, Intimacy, and Social Order in Schenectady (2020)
    • Dutch Indigenous Slavery in New Netherland and the Atlantic World (2025)
    • Good prize or not? The case of Juan Gaillardo Ferrera and thirty-seven enslaved Africans in New Amsterdam, 1652-1657 (2025)
    • Perceptions of Colonial Slavery in Dutch Art (2025)
    • Pieter Christiaan’s Life After Enslavement in 18th Century New York (2025)
    • Slavery and Enslavement among the Dutch in St. Thomas: a Comparative Analysis with New Netherland (2025)
  • Slavery in New Netherland: A Digital Exhibtion
    • Labor
    • Slave Trade
    • Culture
    • The Law
    • Half-Freedom
    • Interracial Relations
    • Legacy
    • Family and Community
    • Biography of Manuel de Gerrit de Reus
    • Suggested Reading – Slavery
• Historical Timelines
  • The Netherlands and Scandinavia in North America
  • Historical Calendar
  • Timeline, West India Company’s First Decade
• Maps of New Netherland
  • Charting New Netherland
    • Novi Orbis Pars Borealis Americae, 1600
    • Norumbega et Virginia, 1597
    • Nova Anglia Novum Belgium et Virginia, 1630
    • Nova Belgica et Anglia Nova, 1635
    • Carta particulare nuova Belgia, 1646
    • Novae Belgiae Angliae nec non parties Virginiae, 1655
    • Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae, c. 1673
    • Pas-Kaart Van de Zee Kusten van Niew Nederland, 1681
  • Maps of Bert Twaalfhoven
    • New England, New Netherland and Virginia + Bermuda, 1630
    • New Netherland and New England, 1635
    • New England, New Netherland, and Virginia, 1636
    • Chart of New Netherland and the English Virginias, 1666
    • Chart of the Sea Coast between Cape Cod and Cape de Sable, 1684
    • A Map of New England and New York, 1676
    • New England Situated in North America, 1723
    • New Netherland, New England and Parts of Virginia, 1650
    • New Netherland and New England, 1694
    • New Netherland and New England, mid-1650s
    • New Amsterdam, 1671
    • Chart of the Sea Coast of New Netherlands, 1685
    • New Netherland and New England – Amsterdam, 1647
    • A New Edition of All of New Netherland, 1757
    • The Northeast/New York City, 1556
    • New England as Described by Captain John Smith, 1714
    • Norumbega and Virginia, 1597
    • New Amsterdam on the Island of Manhattan, Renamed New York, 1702
  • A Tour of New Netherland
    • Connecticut River, House of Hope, Colen Donck, Mystic
    • Albany, Beverwijck, Rensselaerswijck, Fort Orange, Fort Nassau
    • Hudson River, Colen Donck, Esopus, The Half Moon, Mohawk River
    • Long Island, Breuckelen, Gravesend, Heemstede, New Utrecht
    • Manhattan, Broadway, Fort Amsterdam, Haarlem, New Amsterdam, Wall Street
    • Delaware, Fort Nassau, Fort Christina, Fort Elfsborg, Swaanendael
• A Tour of Netherlandish Sites in New York State
• Notable Dutch Americans

Research

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• Translations and Transcriptions
  • Research Guides, Bibliographies and Indices
  • From the Collections of the New York State Archives
  • From the Collections of the Albany County Hall of Records
  • From the Collections of the New York State Library
  • From the Collections of the New York City Municipal Archives
  • From the Collections of the New-York Historical Society
  • From the Collections of the New York Public Library
  • From the Collections of the Scheepvaart Museum in Amsterdam
  • From the Collections of the National Archives of the United Kingdom – The Prize Papers
  • Miscellaneous
  • Translator’s Corner
• Voyages
  • Voyages Database
  • Glossary of Nautical Terms
  • Methods & Sources
  • Charts & Graphics
  • Route Map
  • Social Network Graph
  • A Ship’s Story
  • Timeline Slideshow
  • Tables
  • References & Citations
  • Explanation of Terms
• Genealogical Research in New Netherland
• New Netherland Research Center
• Resources & Research Tools
  • Zotero Bibliography
  • Guide to 17th Century Dutch Coins, Weights, and Measures
  • National Archives
  • New York State Library

 

Read · Watch · Listen

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• Essays & Talks
  • Govert Loockermans and His Relatives
  • Explorers, Fortunes and Love Letters
  • Annals of New Netherland
    • Privatizing Colonization: The Patroonship of Rensselaerswijck
    • The Dutch among the People of the Long River
    • The Essays of A.J.F. van Laer
  • Papers Presented at Meetings of the New Netherland Institute
    • Lifeblood of American Liberty
    • Conversing with Each Other, among Other Things of the Sale of Houses 
    • A name dear to every American of Dutch descent
    • From Gothic Window to Kloosterkozijn
• Totidem Verbis – Stories of New Netherland
  • “Discovering” Australia: The Remarkable Fame of Captain Cook
  • “Manhattan and the $24 Myth”
  • A More Richly Freighted Ship: The Luck and Labors of John Romeyn Brodhead
  • A Tribute to A.J.F. Van Laer
  • A Veritable Bontekoe Journey
  • ANCODS – Australian Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks
  • Another First for the Dutch: Cape Town
  • Anthony van Diemen, The Man and his Island
  • Australia’s Dutch Columbus: Nieuw Holland, Not New Netherland
  • Cape Horn: How a Trading Monopoly, a Disenchanted Wealthy Merchant, and Two Dutch Explorers Put it on the Map
  • Chasing Whales and Wealth: The Story of the Noordsche Compagnie
  • De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius: Where does the Newsletter’s Name Come From?
  • Discovery and Disaster: The Five Ships of Rotterdam
  • Frederik Ruysch and his Repository of Curiosities
  • Like Beads for Manhattan: The Perpetuation of a Cliché
  • Lost Ships of the VOC
  • Michiel de Ruyter, Held van Nederland
  • Mijnheer Minuit and the Indians
  • New Amsterdam is Old Hat
  • Old Bridge’s Name Recalls Tribal History
  • Old Silver Nails: How Peter Stuyvesant Lost His Leg
  • Olivier van Noort: The First Dutch Circumnavigator
  • Oorlogsbuit: Dutch War Booty Back in England
  • Out of the Ashes: A.J.F. van Laer and the 1911 Fire
  • Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser and the Mapping of the Southern Sky
  • Purchased, Leased, Borrowed, or Shared: How Did the Dutch and the Indians View the Manhattan Deal?
  • Sailing the Brouwer Route to the East Indies
  • Spices and Spying: How the Dutch Found Their Way to the East Indies
  • Spuyten Duyvil in Fact and Fiction
  • The Amsterdamsche Wisselbank (Exchange Bank of Amsterdam)
  • The Arctic Adventures of Cornelis Corneliszoon Nay
  • The Delft Thunderclap of 1654
  • The Dutch Discovery of Western Australia
  • The Dutch in the Arctic
  • The First Shot Heard Around the World
  • The Leiden Explosion of 1807
  • The Lessons of the Catastophe: A.J.F. van Laer’s Report on the 1911 Capitol Fire
  • The Man Who Took Back New Netherland: Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest, 1642–1706
  • The Manhattan “Swindle” Myth
  • The Manhattan Deal: A Strange Fixation on Beads
  • The Mirror and the Treasure: The Navigational Charts of Lucas Janszoon Waghenaer
  • The Native Place of Manhattan: Where Did the Manhattan “Purchase” Take Place?
  • The South Sea Voyage of Jacob Roggeveen, 1721-1723
  • The Voyage of Pieter de Lint, 1598 – 1603
  • Trade and Territory: Abel Tasman and the Discovery of New Zealand
  • When the Dutch Invaded England
• Articles of Interest
  • Illustrating the Manhattan Purchase
  • Know Your Enemy: England and the British
  • Dissing the Dutch – All’s Fair in Love and War
  • Fun Festivities with Food for the 400th
  • New Netherland Matters: In Search of Stuyvesant’s Bowery
• Book Recommendations
• Dutch Treats – Bite-sized morsels for a taste of New Netherland & the Dutch World
• Podcasts

 

Education

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• Students
  • What Was New Netherland
    • Introduction
    • The Colony of New Netherland
    • Who Lived There?
    • How Did They Get to New Netherland?
    • Why Did They Leave Europe?
    • What Were Their Homes Like?
    • Where in New Netherland Did They Live?
    • What Did They Do?
    • What Did They Own?
    • What Was Childhood Like?
    • What Did Children Play?
    • What Happened to New Netherland?
    • Why Was the Colony Initially Founded?
    • Classroom Questions
  • Teunis in the Dutch Republic
    • The Blacksmith’s Apprentice
    • The Dockworker
    • The Patroon
    • About the Author
  • Going Dutch: A Visit to New Netherland
    • A Visit to New Netherland
    • Visiting New Amsterdam
    • Visiting Beverwijck
    • Arent van Curler’s Farm
    • Visiting Fort Orange
    • Timeline
    • Glossary
    • Learn More
    • Places to Visit
    • Meet Peter Stuyvesant
    • Lois Miner Huey
• Teachers
  • What was New Netherland: New York’s Colonial Dutch History – Classroom Questions
  • New York’s Colonial Dutch History: An Educational Resource Guide Developed by the New York State Archives
  • Lesson Plans from The New Amsterdam Center
• Walking Tours
  • Digital Walking Tour  – The Mapping Early New York Project from the New Amsterdam History Center
  • Mevrouw’s Manhattan – A Walking Tour
• Videos

 

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