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. , named for Prince event in honor of the 400th The Dutch coveted Portugal’s place Maurice. Also in the fleet was the anniversary of Hudson’s Hendrick Frederick in the East Indies and in their 300-ton , named explorations held at the Cultural struggle with Spain saw the latter for the Stadtholder’s brother, and Education Center in Albany on Eendracht country’s ships and ports as fair two 50-ton yachts, October 2 and 3, 2009, and Hoop game for attack. Olivier Van Noort, (Concord) and (Hope). (That attracted an audience of over 180. Hendrick Frederick a 40-year-old Rotterdam tavern- the was the Entitled “Kiliaen van Rensselaer’s keeper and adventurer, was fired by largest vessel, and hence carried Colonie: The Beginning of the lure of fame, Spanish gold, and most of the fleet’s trade goods, European Settlement of the Upper the riches of the Spice Islands to would turn out to be a huge Hudson,” the Seminar featured join the ranks of these freebooters. advantage for the expedition, as we presentations by scholars from the In 1598 he joined with three other shall see.) The investors elected United States and the Netherlands. merchants and many shareholders Van Noort as Admiraal of the The set consists of two DVDs with Hendrick to form a company of trader- enterprise. On the the Seminar’s program and Frederick adventurers. The States General was Vice-Admiraal handouts in hard copy and is also granted authority for the Jakob Claesz. van Ilpendam. When available through our online shop at undertaking and letters of marque the fleet sailed from Goeree on www.nnp.org for $19.95 + S&H. were issued authorizing the September 13, 1598, Pieter Esiasz. De Lint, a 30-year-old from De Nieu Nederlanse Marcurius 4

Rotterdam, was captain of the Vice-Admiraal in place of Jakob the north and as the prevailing Eendracht. Claesz. and transferred to command winds were from the south Van Hendrick Frederick The relatively straightforward the on January Noort decided that he could not voyage across the Atlantic was 26, 1600. The sailing master at his attain the Santa Maria rendezvous. complicated by scurvy, ship fever, side after his promotion was Arend In Van Noort’s defense, the poor rations, insubordination, cruel Klaesz Callebuys. square-rigged ocean ships of the punishments, inaccurate navigation, The three remaining ships of Van period could not easily make way terrible storms, worse calms, and Noort’s fleet entered the Strait of against headwinds, though he could desertion. Along the way, De Lint’s Magellan on the fifth attempt on have found northerly winds out to ship was abandoned as unseaworthy November 25, 1599. It was an sea. and burned, and her crew, arduous passage, though rare Towards the end of May, De Lint, equipment, and stores were favorable winds blew the ships out abandoning his watch for the rest of distributed throughout the fleet. De into the Pacific on February 29. The the fleet, began his northward Lint was not long without a weather was stormy and the course. A privateer that could only command for Jakob Jansz. visibility poor; on March 12 at have been the Hendrick Frederick Huidekoper, captain of the Hoop, latitude 46° S. the Hendrick seized a Spanish provisioning ship died of scurvy and De Lint was Frederick lost sight of the other en route to the garrison at Fort named captain in his stead. The ships and was never to see them Arauco. By June 18 De Lint had Hoop was renamed Eendracht. This again. A plan had been agreed upon reached Arica at the northernmost would not be the last time that De to cover this eventuality, for it was point of Chile where the continent Lint was promoted and given a new well known that progress through begins its bulge westward. Here he ship. The fleet finally reached the the Strait was difficult and sent out two ship’s boats to capture Strait of Magellan after more than a separation likely. Stragglers were a small bark at anchor in the harbor, year in the Atlantic. instructed to make their way to the but the hot reception from the Vice-Admiraal Jakob Claesz. had island of Santa Maria, well north Spanish gunners forced a hasty difficulty submitting to Van Noort’s along the coast, and wait at this withdrawal. This episode is authority. He was haughty and rendezvous for two months for the reported in the diary of Dirck sneered (with good cause) at Van fleet to reassemble. De Lint did Gerritsz. Pomp, a captured Dutch Noort’s seamanship. He may have exactly what the plan called for and captain from the earlier failed flirted with mutiny, but this is arrived at Santa Maria on March 25, Mahu-De Cordes expedition. His Blijde Boodschaap unclear as only Van Noort’s side of 1600. ship, the (Happy the story survives. The articles Van Noort also arrived at Santa Message, the Dutch translation of issued by Prince Maurice required Maria on March 25 but ‘gospel’) was taken by the Spanish absolute obedience to the considerably earlier than De Lint. off Valparaiso. Pomp’s report from commander. Jakob Claesz. was Upon approaching the island Van his cell in Lima is all that is known arrested on Christmas Day 1599 Noort saw a ship that he initially from Dutch sources about De Lint’s and subsequently found guilty of took to be the Hendrick Frederick voyage along the coast of South conduct prejudicial to good order but it turned out to be a Spanish America. As for Van Noort, having and discipline. He was sentenced to ship, the Buen Jesus, on picket duty continued to sail north and having be abandoned on a desolate island to watch for intruders making their given up any attempt to link up with Hendrick Frederick in the strait with a few weeks’ way through the strait. Always the , he turned supply of food and wine; nothing is hungry for prizes, Van Noort westward into the Pacific on May known of his fate. De Lint must pursued the Buen Jesus into the 10, well before De Lint had left his have made an impression on Van following day, finally capturing her. vigil at Santa Maria. Noort as he was appointed However, the chase took him far to [To be continued]