A home geography of New York city . hey were shipped directly to Europe. 134 HOME GEOGEAPHY OF NEW YOEK CITY Adrian Block Adrian Block was one of the first fur traders. He and his mendid not make their homes here. They lived in these houses whiletrading. Although it was merely a trading settlement, it was asettlement, and is considered the beginning of our city. Blocksvessel, the Tiger, was burned a few days before he was ready tosail for home. The Indians helped him to build another ship andsupplied him with food. Block was the first white man to build a boaton Manhattan, as well as the first
A home geography of New York city . hey were shipped directly to Europe. 134 HOME GEOGEAPHY OF NEW YOEK CITY Adrian Block Adrian Block was one of the first fur traders. He and his mendid not make their homes here. They lived in these houses whiletrading. Although it was merely a trading settlement, it was asettlement, and is considered the beginning of our city. Blocksvessel, the Tiger, was burned a few days before he was ready tosail for home. The Indians helped him to build another ship andsupplied him with food. Block was the first white man to build a boaton Manhattan, as well as the first white man to build a house here. THIS TABLET MARKS THE SITE OF THE FIRST HABITATION OF WHITE MEN ON THE ISLAND OF MANHATTAN ADEIAN BLOCK COMMANDER OF THE TIGER ERECTED HERE FOUR HOUSES OR HUTS NOVEMBER, 1613 HE BUILT THE RESTLESS, THE FIRST VESSEL MADE BY EUROPEANS IN THIS COUNTRY THE RESTLESS WAS LAUNCHED IN THE SPRING OF 1614 THIS TABLET IS PLACED HERE BY THE HOLLAND SOCIETY OF NEW YORK SEPTEMBER, 1890 Tablet at No. 41 BuoAinvAY. NiEUW Nederlandt This view of Fort Amsterdam on Manhattan is copied from an ancient engravingexecuted in Holland. The fort was erected in 1623, but was finished upon theabove model by Governor Van Twilier in 1635 CHAPTER XXVI THE DUTCH IN NEW YORK Peter Minuit The Dutch lived in Holland, or Netherlaud. Their principalcity was Amsterdam. They named the part of America discoveredand explored by Henry Hudson, New Netherland, and the southernend of the present borough of Manhattan, New Amsterdam. In 1623 some families from Holland settled in New Amsterdam,some settled in Brooklyn where the Navy Yard is now, and otherssettled in Albany. 136 HOME GEOGRAPHY OF NEW YORK CITY In 1626 Peter Minuit, the first Dutch governor came fromHolland to take charge of the new settlements. The Indians werethe rightful owners and tenants of the land, and it would havebeen wrong to have taken this land from them without payingfor it. Peter Minuits first act was to buy
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