https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie Using primary sources from the last few days, here is a timeline of how New Netherland came to be. en-us 2022-08-05 17:05:34 UTC 2025-12-25 15:17:28 UTC hello@padlet.com eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255587524 " There are other riches, like gold, which ground of such a color usually denotes. There is an abundance of animals, stags, deer, hares; and also of lakes and pools of running water with various types of bird, perfect for all the delights and pleasures of the hunt."]]> 2022-08-05 17:11:19 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255587524 eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255588989 "At ten of the clocke two Boates came off to us, with sixe of the Savages of the Countrey, seeming glad of our coming. We gaue them trifles, and they eate and dranke with us; and told us, that there were GOld, Silver, and Copper mynes hard by us; and that the French-men doe Trade with them; which is very likely, for one of them spake some words of French."]]> 2022-08-05 17:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255588989 eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255589651 "They have purchased the Island Manhattes from the Indians for the value of 60 guilders."]]> 2022-08-05 17:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255589651 eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255590563 2022-08-05 17:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255590563 eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255591269 "As for the native Indians they need not be feared. They may terrify a stranger or a new comer ... you will find no organized regiments, companies, or regular military force, they are impatient under restraint, and cannot effect much."]]> 2022-08-05 17:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255591269 eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255593536 "Director Stuyvesant ... Efforts are just now making at the Hague before their High Mightinesses to effect a general Reform in all the Colonial possessions of this Company, and New Netherland also was remembered on that occasion ... Ships may again take freight from Brazil to this Country, but that those who have completed their trade in Angola shall be at liberty to convey Negroes back home to be employed in the cultivation of their lands."]]> 2022-08-05 17:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255593536 eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255594965 2022-08-05 17:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255594965 eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255596962 "I took my leave of Commander Kieft, and left in the Rotterdammer buss for the English Virginias; and, in taking leave of Willem Kieft, I told him that this murder which he had committed on so much innocent blood would yet be avenged upon him, and thus I left him."]]> 2022-08-05 17:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255596962 eabell5 https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255597568 2022-08-05 17:35:18 UTC https://padlet.com/eabell5/5gh8wuoox3et66ie/wish/2255597568