1610
State
A Dutch ship belonging to private merchant-traders travels up the Hudson River to trade for furs with the Mahicans.
Netherlands ** The approximate date Peter Stuyvesant is born in Peperga.
1611
City
Former Dutch lawyer Adrian Block explores Manhattan Island in the ship Tyger . He returns to Europe with a cargo of furs and two kidnaped Indians, who he names Orson and Valentine.
1613
Mar 27
Dutch merchants send the ship Fortuyn, captained by German explorer Hendrick Christaensen (Christiaenszoon, Christiaensen, Corstiaensen), and the Tyger, commanded by Adriaen Block, along with three other vessels, to the Mauritius (Hudson) River.
May
Christaensen and Block arrive off Manhattan. Block will sail along Long Island Sound, collecting and trading. Christaensen will sail up the Hudson to the Albany area, where he builds Fort Nassau, then returns downriver, erecting a few huts on Manhattan and preparing to winter over.
November
English captain Samuel Argall stops at Manhattan Island, forces Christaensen to lower the Dutch flag and raise the English one. ** Block returns to Manhattan Island in the Tyger, which is destroyed in a fire off the southern tip. A mutiny results in Block and Christaensz being abandoned. They establish a Dutch fur-trading post on Manhattan Island. Over the coming winter they build the 42-foot ship Onrust (Restless). They also complete "A Fugurative Map on Vellum".
England
The approximate date Charles Bridges is born in Canterbury. He will settle in New Amsterdam and work for Peter Stuyvesant under the name Carel Van Brugge.
Netherlands
New Amsterdam immigrant Jan Cornelissen is born in Rotterdam.
1614
City
Adrien Block explores the East River and Long Island Sound in the Onrust. He leaves Jan Rodriguez, a Santo Domingo mulatto, behind on Manhattan to trade with the natives, goes on to explore the lower reaches of the Connecticut River.
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