Tag: Henry Hudson
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Where One Gathers the Wood to Make Bows (aka, Manhattan)
William Starna (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta) has a fascinating short article on the Origins of the Name Manhattan: The event is a storied one. In 1626, Peter Minuit purchased a large island at the mouth of the Hudson River from unknown and unnamed although otherwise Munsee-speaking…
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Henry Hudson
In 1609, on September 13th, Henry Hudson weighed anchor at West Harlem on his way up what would become known as the Hudson River: [September 13]The thirteenth, faire weather, the wind Northerly. At seuen of the clocke in the morning,as the floud came we weighed, and turned foure miles into the Riuer. The tide being…