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Hello, welcome to the Bowry Boys. I'm Greg Young with a solo show this week for you and we are going

way way back, back all the way to the year

1609 of course many years before there was a New York in fact to the day before there were even any Europeans that had ever set foot on the

Island of Manhattan. This is of course the story of Henry Hudson. The English explorer who first sailed into New York Harbour

passed that landmass that of course one day we would all call Manhattan and

up the river that would of course bear his name the Hudson River. Now you're going to be hearing a lot about Henry this year as

New York celebrates the 400th year of his voyage on the ship the half moon. A lot of people trace the discovery of Manhattan itself to the date of

Get this September 11th

1609 which is the first day that Hudson sailed into New York Harbour and first set anchor on the southern tip of the island.

So I'll try to lay out the basics for you here with some highlights about Hudson and the discovery of New York Harbour itself.

Of course, I'll be going way outside the sort of normal parameters of what we usually talk about here on this podcast

But don't worry at the end. I'll definitely be bringing it back to New York. Now far from being a great and noble discovery for far off European land

The harbour in the land around it was actually kind of incidental to Hudson and his particular mission. However, by the end of this

Podcast I'll reveal the real reason while his voyage is still important to us today

Before 1609 the area that is today the New York City metro area not to mention all of New Jersey and the western part of Long Island

All of this area was inhabited by the Lenape Indians from your old school books

You probably know the Lenape as the Delaware Indians because that's what the Europeans refer to them as you can impress your friends with this fact

Their original name for this region was actually Lenape Hake Inc. That means not surprisingly, where the Lenape dwell

The first European to ever see New York Harbour got there over 75 years before Henry Hudson

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