Vol. 26, No. 1 “De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius” Mar. 2010 Events of interest *** Featuring hundreds of artworks, Through June 26, 2010. “Mapping artifacts, interactive displays, and Through April 30, 2010. Nina New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009” is rare archival documents from the Postupack, Ulster County clerk an exhibition at the New York Public Albany Institute’s renowned announces Dividing Lines: Early Hudson River Library to celebrate the Dutch collections, Maps of the Ulster County Clerk’s Panorama accomplishments in the New York encompasses five major Office, an exhibit from the county City region, especially along the themes relating the many clerk’s Map Index Number 1, waterways forming its urban water- agricultural, industrial, and cultural showing maps #1 to #1850 filed shed, from the Connecticut River and influences of this historic waterway: between 1797 and 1956. Maps Long Island Sound to the North º Community and Settlement exhibited represent the formation (Hudson) River to the South º Natural History and Environment of Ulster County Townships and (Delaware) River. The exhibition is º Transportation the Ashokan Reservoir, each inspired by NYPL’s collection of º Trade, Commerce, and Industry township in the county and much Dutch, English, and early American º Culture and Symbol more. The exhibit will be on mapping of the Atlantic coastal During your visit be sure to visit display in the County Clerk’s regions. Featured are maps, atlases, the Hudson 400 Shop for the area’s office at 244 Fair Street, 2nd floor books, journals, broadsides, manu- best selection of books, prints, Archives Gallery, Kingston, NY. scripts, prints, and photographs. The cards, postcards, etc. celebrating the For more information call: exhibition is in the Schwarzmann historic Hudson Valley. 845–340–3040. Building of the NYPL at 5th Avenue For addtional information go to: *** and 42nd Street, NYC. albanyinstitute.org; closed Mondays, registered groups only on March 17, 2010 . Janny Venema, *** Tuesdays, Wed.–Sat. 10–5, Beverwijck: a Dutch the author of Through January 2, 2011 Sundays, noon–5. Village on the American Frontier, . By Hudson 1652–1664 popular demand the exhibit and associate on the River Panorama: 400 Years of NNP has been invited to speak on Publications History, Art, and Culture at the “Hudson Valley Records Before Albany Institute of History and Art A softcover edition of the new 1664” at the Egbert Benson will be extended for another year. translation of Adriaen van der Historical Society at 7:30 pm. The This unprecedented exhibition Donck’s Description of New Society has its quarters in the commemorates Henry Hudson’s 1609 Netherland is now available at Elmendorf Inn located on route 9 exploration of the river that bears his www.nnp.org from our online shop two blocks north of the traffic name, and the remarkable narrative of for $19.95 plus S&H. This light in Red Hook, NY. For the people, events, and ideas that soft-cover edition provides the first additional information call John have shaped this magnificent region. complete and accurate English- Vincent at: 845–758–0478. New Netherland Project, CEC 10D45, Albany, NY 12230 Voice: 518–474–6067 Fax: 518–473–0472 [email protected] NNI office: 518–486–4815 www.nnp.org De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 2 language translation of an essential middle class and its relationship to the 2009 Project initiatives and the first-hand account of the lives and changing economic conditions. The New Netherland Research Center. world of Dutch colonists and final section looks at the poor and *** northeastern Native communities in vulnerable, showing how elite rd the seventeenth century. Adriaen Americans exercised their political The 33 New Netherland (formerly van der Donck, a graduate of and social power to structure the called the Rensselaerswijck) Leiden University in the 1640s, lives and deaths of the weaker Seminar will be held on Saturday, became the law enforcement officer members of their communities. September 25, 2010 from 9:00 - for the Dutch patroonship of Engaging the difficulties and range 4:00 in the Huxley Theater at the Rensselaerswijck, located along the of meanings of class, the essays New York State Museum. Speakers upper Hudson River. His position seek to energize the study of social and theme are being discussed by enabled him to interact extensively relations in the Atlantic World. The NNP and NNI staff and will be with Dutch colonists and the local book is available from announced shortly. The New Algonquians and Iroquoians. An Amazon.com for $49.95. Netherland Dinner will follow the Seminar with a cocktail hour astute observer, detailed recorder, *** and accessible writer, Van der beginning at 5:00 pm. The venue Donck was ideally situated to write The Fall 2009 issue of New York will be announced soon. about his experiences and the History contains an article by Joyce natural and cultural worlds around Goodfriend entitled “Foreigners in NNI News him. a Dutch Colonial City.” The Kenney Award was announced *** News at the 2009 Annual Meeting. In 2008 a book entitled Class Professor C. Carl Pegels, Professor Matters: Early North America and The New Netherland Museum, Emeritus of the University of the Atlantic World, edited by Simon owner of the replica ship, Halve Buffalo is this year’s recipient. Middleton and Billy G. Smith, was Maen, has a new office on the top Unable to attend the annual published by the University of floor of the Pearl Street Coliseum at meeting, he received the Award at Pennsylvania Press. Anyone who 153 South Pearl Street in Albany, the New Netherland Dinner on monitors closely the activities of the NY. For more information go to: October 3, 2009. Nominations for New Netherland Institute may www. newnetherland.org. the 2010 award are due April 1, recall that Simon Middleton, 2010. Mr. Michael T. Brockbank, Lecturer in American History at the Save the dates executor of Mrs. Kenney’s estate University of Sheffield, won the has agreed to continue funding the Hendricks Manuscript Prize in The Annual Meeting of the New Kenney Award. This grant now 2004. He is also the author of From Netherland Institute will be held on enables the Institute to award an Privileges to Rights: Work and Saturday, May 15th beginning with annual prize of $1,000 to an Politics in Colonial New York City, a luncheon at noon at the University individual or group which has made published in 2006. Club on Washington Avenue in a significant contribution to Class Matters considers the Albany. Following the luncheon, colonial Dutch studies and/or has dynamics of class relations in the there will be a business meeting and encouraged understanding of the Atlantic world through the 17th and talk by a New Netherland scholar. significance of the Dutch colonial 18th centuries, from North In addition to the President’s report experience in North America by American Indian communities to and reports from the Treasurer and research, teaching, writing, the tobacco lords of Glasgow. It NNP director, Jim Sefcik, Associate speaking, or in other ways. also examines the cultural for Development and Special Reasonable travel expenses will be development of a new and aspiring Projects will provide an update on reimbursed. De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 3 *** Totidem Verbis Hendricks Award Submissions for In the March 2009 edition of the Marcurius (vol.25 no.1) we told you of the adventures the 2010 award are due March 15, of Olivier van Noort, the first Dutch explorer to circumnavigate the world. Among those 2010. Two submissions have been accompanying Van Noort on this voyage of discovery and privateering was Pieter De received thus far. The 2009 Lint, originally captain of the Eendracht and subsequently as Van Noort’s Hendricks Award was presented to Vice-Admiraal aboard the Hendrick Frederick. James Bradley for his book Before If Van Noort’s feats have been little heralded among non-Dutch historians, those of De Albany at the Rensselaerswijck Lint must of necessity be even less known, and the evidence of his achievement remains Seminar on Saturday, October 3. scattered and fragmentary. Separated from the rest of the fleet in the Strait of Magellan, Dr. Hendricks requested that the De Lint sailed north along the Pacific coast of South America then struck out across the award be increased to $5,000 ocean to arrive in the Spice Islands. De Lint’s voyage and the major role he played in beginning with the 2009 award. As ensuring the financial success of the mission have, until recently, never been properly per his instructions, each winner documented. will receive a Tantillo print with the Fred Swart, a descendant of Pieter De Lint’s brother, working from primary sources in person’s name and year the award both Dutch and Spanish, has reconstructed the route and events of De Lint’s little known was given. The print chosen is a voyage and the negotiations that followed his arrival in the Moluccas. Mr. Swart’s painting of Fort Orange Tantillo did article “The Circumnavigation of the Globe by Pieter Esaiasz de Lint, 1598–1603” in as New York’s gift to the Crown the Journal of the Hakluyt Society (January 2007) allows De Lint’s achievement to take Prince. its deserved place in history. This Totidem Verbis article by Peter A. Douglas is based *** on Mr. Swart’s original and much longer article. Genealogists and historians will find much in the new DVD set of THE VOYAGE OF PIETER expedition to make war on Spanish the 32nd annual Rensselaerswijck DE LINT, 1598–1603 and Portuguese vessels and Seminar. The Seminar organized by possessions. The decade 1590–1600 saw the the New Netherland Project in worldwide expansion of the Dutch Four ships were fitted out; Van conjunction with the New Republic, a country with the ships Noort’s flagship was the 275-ton Netherland Institute, was a two-day Mauritius and captains to achieve this goal.