Hudson-Fulton-Champlain
Quadricentennial

Half Moon Replica

The Dutch in the
Hudson River Valley

Native Americans
in the Hudson Valley

Manual for Historic Interpretation of the Half Moon

The Dutch and Early Hudson River History

The Dutch controlled the Hudson River Valley from 1609 until the English takeover in 1664, but during this time, Dutch entrepreneurs established a series of trading posts, towns, and forts up and down the Hudson River that laid the groundwork for towns that exist today. Fort Orange, the northernmost of the Dutch outposts, is todays Albany; New York was originally New Amsterdam, and the New Netherland's third major settlement, Wiltwyck, is known today as Kingston.

Dutch Colonies
Overview of the Dutch period in the Hudson Valley with an emphasis on Kingston.
From the City of Kingston Web Site

The Dutch, The Indians, and the Fur Trade in the Hudson Valley, 1609-1664
by Howard Vernon in Neighbors and Intruders: An Ethnohistorical Exploration of the Indians of Hudson's River

The Hard Blond Traders
Early white settlers along the Hudson River.
From "The Hudson," by Carl Carmer, Published: New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1939

The Dutch in the Hudson Valley
A Web Site project of the 1997 Summer Scholars program at Marist College to document the early settlement and ethnic history of the Hudson Valley.

The Dutch in the Iroquois War
An extensive description with maps about the Dutch and Iroquois interaction during the 17th century.

Charles T. Gehring, historian and translator
Charles T. Gehring is translating approximately 12,000 pages of Dutch records dating to the period when the New York region was called New Netherlands and the tiny community at the southern tip of Manhattan Island was New Amsterdam. Taken together, the documents already translated provide a wealth of material about how the Dutch lived, how they interacted with the Indians, and how their communities were set up.

The New Netherland Project
Established under the sponsorship of the New York State Library and the Holland Society of New York to complete the transcription, translation, and publication of all Dutch documents in New York repositories relating to the seventeenth - century colony of New Netherland.