Early Dutch History Preserved by the Society of Daughters of Holland
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50 SOCIETY OF DAUGHTERS OF HOLLAND DAMES MODERN RERINTS 51 by Mrs.by Lee Mrs. Crandall Lee Crandall Park, Park,Immediate Immediate Past Directress Past Directress General General and Archival and Archival Historian Historian by Mrs.by Mrs. Lee Lee Crandall Crandall Park, Park, Immediate Immediateand Mrs.Pastand Past Peter DirectressMrs. Directress PeterKimmelman, GeneralKimmelman, General Directress and and ArchivalDirectress Archival General Historian General Historian andand Mrs. Mrs. Peter Peter Kimmelman, Kimmelman, Directress Directress General General IntroductionIntroduction and and History History history,history, a group a group of descendants of descendants of the of theearly early Dutch Dutch families families formed formed to settleto settle and and do dobusiness. business. Landing Landing first first on onwhat what is now is now Governo GovernoSs Ss ManhattanManhattan 1660. 1660. Painting Painting by Len by LenTantillo, Tantillo, www.lftantillo.com. www.lftantillo.com. the the“Society “Society of Daughtersof Daughters of Hollandof Holland Dames, Dames, Descendants Descendants of theof the Island,Island, they they moved moved on onto ato better a better position position at theat thesouthern southern tip tipof of IntroductionIntroduction and andHistory History history,history, a group a group of descendants of descendants of the of early the Dutchearly Dutch families families formed formed to settleto settleand do and business. do business. Landing Landing first on first what on iswhat now is Governonow GovernoSs SManhattans Manhattan 1660. Painting 1660. 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In 1895, In 1895,go, hego, claimed he claimed the entire the entire Hudson Hudson River RiverValley Valley for the for Dutch. the Dutch. A A was towas change to change the course the course of world of world history. history. lived. lived.Preferring Preferring trade tradeto fighting, to fighting, the Dutch the Dutch under under Governor Governor Petrus Petrus COURTESY OF LEN TANTILLO to perpetuateto perpetuate the memory the memory of their of ancestorstheir ancestors and their and remarkabletheir remarkable few yearsfew yearslater Dutchlater Dutch traders traders returned returned with Huguenotwith Huguenot Walloons Walloons ThCOURTESY OF LEN TANTILLO e DutchTh e Dutch named named their capital their capital New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam. It thrived It thrived due to due toStuyvesant Stuyvesant ceded ceded their theirrule to rule the to British the British in 1664, in 1664,only 40only years 40 years 1212 SOCIALSOCIAL REGISTER REGISTER OBSERVER OBSERVER • WINTER • WINTER 2013 2013 WINTERWINTER 2013 2013 • SOCIAL • SOCIAL REGISTER REGISTER OBSERVER OBSERVER 13 13 12 12SOCIAL SOCIAL REGISTER REGISTER OBSERVER OBSERVER • WINTER • WINTER 2013 2013 WINTERWINTER 2013 • 2013SOCIAL • SOCIAL REGISTER REGISTER OBSERVER OBSERVER 13 13 52 SOCIETY OF DAUGHTERS OF HOLLAND DAMES MODERN RERINTS 53 plan was to write a history of the world, but as Society’s library reading room. The Arrival of the Halve Maen, that became too laborious he focused on the 1609, designed by the Gorham Company, was originally period of Dutch “domination” of New York, donated by the Holland Dames in 1909 and restored in 2011 “at that time almost a ‘terra incognita’ in under the leadership of then Directress General Mary Park, history.” “I was surprised,” he continued, “to with major funding from the family foundation of former fi nd how few of my fellow-citizens were aware Directress General Anna Glen Butler Vietor. (Anna Glen that New York had even been called New Vietor was awarded the Order of the Orange-Nassau by Amsterdam, or had heard of the names of its Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, an honor conferred on few early Dutch governors, or cared a straw about foreigners.) their ancient Dutch progenitors.” By way of Before its restoration few people noticed the window. It was not apology for his work, in response to “deserved even considered a part of the Society’s historic collection. David rebuke from men of soberer minds,” he W. Dunlap of The New York Times wrote in his article ”With a Bit observes “that if it has taken an unwarrantable of Bon Ami and Lots of Care The Half Moon Sails Back liberty with our early provincial history,