Block, Adriaen
1567 - Born this year. Adriaen Block was a Dutch private fur trader and navigator.
1611-1614 - Explored the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages.
1611 - At the commission of a group of Lutheran merchants, Block and fellow captain Hendrick Christiaensen revisited the area Hudson had explored, bringing back furs and two sons of a native sachem.
1614 - He is noted for establishing early trade with the Native Americans, and for the map of his last voyage on which many features of the mid-Atlantic region appear for the first time, and on which the term New Netherland is first applied to the region.
- He made a fourth voyage to the lower Hudson in the Tyger accompanied by several other ships especially equipped for trading.
- Block, Christiaensen, and a group of twelve other merchants presented to the States General a petition to receive exclusive trading privileges for the area.
1627 - He died this year.
1611-1614 - Explored the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages.
1611 - At the commission of a group of Lutheran merchants, Block and fellow captain Hendrick Christiaensen revisited the area Hudson had explored, bringing back furs and two sons of a native sachem.
1614 - He is noted for establishing early trade with the Native Americans, and for the map of his last voyage on which many features of the mid-Atlantic region appear for the first time, and on which the term New Netherland is first applied to the region.
- He made a fourth voyage to the lower Hudson in the Tyger accompanied by several other ships especially equipped for trading.
- Block, Christiaensen, and a group of twelve other merchants presented to the States General a petition to receive exclusive trading privileges for the area.
1627 - He died this year.
Page last updated: 6:54pm, 13th Aug '07
Related Books
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Adriaen Block: Skipper, trader, explorer by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008)  |
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Adriaen Block: navigator, fur trader, explorer, New York's first shipbuilder, 1611-14 by William Martin Williamson (Unknown Binding - Jul 25, 2008) |
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