The Story of Old Rensselaerville: Based on Old Documents, Early Publications, Public Records, Family Letters and Data Furnished by Oldest Inhabitants, ... and Hoping to Make Sense (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Mary Fisher Torrance

9780266590682: The Story of Old Rensselaerville: Based on Old Documents, Early Publications, Public Records, Family Letters and Data Furnished by Oldest Inhabitants, ... and Hoping to Make Sense (Classic Reprint)

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Every school child who has studied the history of the Empire State, knows of Hendrick Hudson his sail in the little sloop The Halfmoon, scarcely larger than a pleasure boat, carrying a crew of 18 men, up the river which later was to bear his name. The story goes that he went about as far as the present site of Albany, and decided to go no further. There he planted his ﬂag, and claimed the land in the name of the Dutch.

The word went back to Holland, and the Crown wasted no time in pushing its claim. As early as the year 1618, a treaty was drawn up between the Dutch governor of the New Nether lands and the chiefs of the Five Nations, then constituting the Iroquois, stipulating that no land was to be appropriated by settlers, without first satisfying the Indians in actual posses sion. Out of this treaty, an alliance was formed that worked satisfactorily for both sides; the Dutch needed the Iroquois, as allies against the French invasions from Canada, while the Iroquois required the Dutch, with their firearms, as against the Algonquin Indians in Canada, who were getting their firearms from the French.

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