New-York tribune., 1909-09-25
BE. .UFR PUT ON SEAL.
FaI3g Datch Company GiveR No
nOpUf4 Of Trade IN all Section
Roundabout.


ships yearly 10 Archanse Tor pelts. As soon ls
Hudson reachad Amsterdam. late in 1909. snd
told Of tho iin ausa numbers Of fur bearing anil
mails he had seen, and how It was possible %
barter nth the friendly Indians. the shrewd
Dutch merchants speedily planned In establish
trsde. in lCl0 the mate Of the Half Noon COM
mandel . snip tia; came out for a cargo Of
fuTs. Il was successful. and the hackers If the
enterprise pIoiited greatly so much 50 that TWO
years later tho Fortune commanded b. Hendrich
Christiaensen. and the Tiser, commanded by
Adrian Block set forth on a trading voyage 70
the Mauritius River. as the Hudson is called In
some old Dutch chronicles These enterprises
also Wer. successful and the next year three
vessels eanl4 captained b. De Witt, Volekert
seH aIj W. Thus the fur trade became firm
D est Co., 81. j. and ~ present -i.y II N,w York
IA. ii p. siuuiu--
al,l-. .I,.s.ts .... MAD Cvr ,s:aJ.shing
regular -.a.s4 anIe.Ji.. iJh Manhattan Island
and to ~t-tiys p.-e2l..l-:.- as1Hts L,r. 10 buy
and o5l.-' f.r- While lLl ships R,r. taking
thvir f.aI e.-.eo-s baca 20 Holland. captain
t:lrist-aai--a ga- appointed the first NJ.
About sher, 80. 80 Broadway IS now IT, threw
up o reaoult for defensive purposes and inside
At h. built fur small houses. Of huts. in two o.
which he and his assistants lived while the re-
manning Two ..era I5eI for the storage ol iurs.
Captain Adr BI"ol also was > p.oE"er oH the
island
Block was driving. energetic man. and found
sufficient spare time his hands 10 build. in
1914 the urst Vessel constructed on The island.
She Xas named the Restless, and was of six
teen tons burden. Another vessel which be
built Was burned as Block was about 10 sall in
her for Holland
Block Island Is named after Captain Adrian
Block The Dutchmen found the Indians friend
1ry ceF ghqvn vel
them Tor their pelLs and for the food which they
brought 10 keep the uttle band Of white nien
nourished through the winter.
A few months before Block returned 70 Hol-
land the States General OF the Netherlands,
with a Wow u encouraging emigration, passed
an ordinance granting the discoverers Of new
countries the exclusive privilege Of trading at
Manhattan during four years. Accordingly, the
merchants aho had sent out the first expedition
had map made OF al the country between
Canada and Virginia. calling the territory New
Netherlands, and claiming 20 be the original
discoverers. petitioned the government for the
promised monopoly. The petition was granted.
and on October II. 1914. they obtained a charter
for the exclusive right Of trade in the territory
within the 4oth and 45th degrees Of north lati-
tude.
NEW PROVINCE NAMED.
The charter also forbade all other persons 20
conGscating both vessels and cargoes. with
fine also Of 5000 Dutch ducats for the benefit
Of the holders Of the charter The new province
first formally received the name Of New Nather-
lands IN this document. and Dutch merchants
associating themselves under the name Of tho
United New Netherlands Company. prepared to
extend their operations on a more extensive
scale Trading parties TO the interior hastened
10 collect furs from the Indians and deposit
flfern Al Fort Nassau. Albany, as IL was later
called and Manhattan.
Jacob Eelkins a shrewd Dutchman, received
fbe appointnent Of trader at Fort Nassau. Pre-
viouslv the INDIANS thereabouts had proved hos
tile. ana killed the first trader, who was Captain
chfistiaensen. This the first killing by
Indians Of a white man IN the new province.
save for member Of Hudson's crew who was
siain by an arrow near Sandy Hook. In 1903.
Between the Indians and the Dutch treaty
was made in 1917 The Dutchmen and the IrO-
auois smoked the pipe OF peace and went
through tie formal ceremony OF burying the
batchet at Fort Nassau. This treaty, as may
be imagined greatly increased the strength.
confidence and profit Of the Dutch traders, who
before had merely maintained their hold. with
out treaties by sufferance OF the Indians. The
fur traders pressed further and further into the
wilderness, giving muskets, beads. knives ard
other articles for beaver and similar valuable
surT Til.. trade developed pro1tably thai
when the charter Of the company expired, In
1876 ,he5 sought 90 obtain renewal. but failed.
They were permitted 90 continue their trade
two or three years longer under special license
IIp % This time the HoIlanders had considered
Manhattan as a trading post merely, and made
no attempt 10 found a village or city more cub
siantiaI than was provided by the rude huts that