A Description of New Netherland Van Der Donck AdriaenPaperback
A Description of New Netherland Van Der Donck AdriaenPaperback This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential…
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A Description of New Netherland Van Der Donck AdriaenPaperback
This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. His position enabled him to interact extensively with Dutch colonists and the local Algonquians and Iroquoians. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in the 1640s, became the law enforcement officer for the Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, located along the upper Hudson River.
An inaccurate and abbreviated English An astute observer, detailed recorder, and accessible writer, Van der Donck was ideally situated to write about his experiences and the natural and cultural worlds around him.Van der Donck's Beschryvinge van Nieuw-Nederlant was first published in 1655 and then expanded in 1656.
Colony of New Netherland