Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-24
HOLLAND AND THE UNITED STATES.

IlQudtoO Ilcs anu 1EOIu thc pdy tiC AVns
OF great guns Of the United States vessels
OF war. Lewes was now wide awake, and
would commemorate her Dutch ancestors
in spite of herself.
Henry Hudson landed at Lewes In the
Dutch vessel, the Half Moon. August Is
1909. He had sailed from the Zuyder
Zee April 4, 1909. on a voyage to dis
cover a short passage to the orient. Hud-
son found from the soundings that the
Delaware, which he named the South
river, was not the sea he was seeking.
and continued his journey northward. In
September he entered the North river.
which subsequently bore his name.
On November 1. 1929, the West India
authority OF the Chamber of Commerce
Of Amsterdam. signed by the president.
Hendrix Hamel, sent a colony of
twenty-eight Dutchmen to settle the
Hudson.
The Dutch colonists on the South river
in 1881 named their settlement "Swanen-
daef." or dale of the swans" The colo
prospered until, through some misunder-
standing with the Nanticokes. the latter
attacked and massacred them. The set
Element. however. existed long enough to
give to it political Importance. In the
dispute between Lord Baltimore and Will
liam Penn as to the boundaries of their
grants. the lord chancellor decided that
the settlement at Swanendael, although
destroyed. constituted q valid and bona
fide settlement and hence should not be
included in the grant to Lord Baltimore
Delaware owed to this incident her ex-
istence as state. else she would have
been a part of Maryland. and this fact
Is affirmed on the De Vries monument
thus:
Erected by the state Of Delaware to
commemorate the settlement on this spot
Of the first Dutch colony under De Vries,
A.. D. 1851.
"Here was the grading of state. That
Delaware exists as a separate state is
due to this colony"
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New Netherlands. 1t should be recalled
just here, was coded to England in 1867
by the peace of Breda In
Exchange exchange for Surinam of
H6ec+ed Guiana. This exchange.
which transferred the
power Of Holland from North America
to the West Indies. was confirmed by the
treaty OF Westminster, February, 1914,
and subsequently by the treaties of
Amiens in 1902. and the peace Of Paris,
November 20. 1916.
SWanendael was also named Hoorn Kill
and extended from Bombay Hook on the
South river to Hoorn XIII, the extreme
southern section Of the New Netherlands.
Baron Loudon, the minister of the
Netherlands to Washington, on August
| 10 last addressed the rector Of ST. Peters
l. Protestant Episcopal Church at Lewes,
the Ven. Rev. c. H. B. Turner (wilo is
also Archdeacon Of Dover and q descend
ant of the Dutch governor of the South
River settlement, Jean Paul Jacquett, a
communication in which he advised him
that he was sending him from the mayor
Of Hoorn on behalf of the municipal
council Of that city for the city of Lewes.
| carved wooden escutcheon Of the city
| OF Hoorn, "as a token of sympathy on
| the festive occasion of the tercentenary of
| Henry Hudson's discovery"
conducted by Gov. Pennewill. who pre-
scented Judge George Gray, who had been
designated to present the monument to
the state. Judge Gray dwelt upon the
close relationship between the early Puri-
| tans of England and their neighbors of
| the Netherlands The tyranny of the
Spanish king drove many Of those brave
Netherlanders to England. where they
| found refuge and hospitality. Aside from
their skill and Industry they brought
love OF freedom and equality before the
| law. The sympathy and spiritual kin
ship resulting from this Dutch emigra-
| tion was illustrated generation later,
| when John Robinson and his company of
resolute Englishrnen found welcome and
asylum at Leyden.
Judge Gray referred gracefully to the
fitness of the presence Of Baron Loudon,
| minister of Holland to the United States.
| He said: Your country. sir, has earned
| as no other country has earned the signal
honor Of having It's capital made the
peace capital of the world, and we all
pray that the permanent court Of inter
| national arbitration SO happily established
| at The Hague may achieve victories for
peace no less renowned than those of
the battles for freedom so bravely won
| by your country