#92 Here Come The Dutch!
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This is the beginning of the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colonization of today’s New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and elsewhere in the mid-Atlantic. New Netherland was a long-ignored period in American history, but has come into its own in recent years. The Dutch and New Netherland are now seen to have had a significant impact on the early United States, with important downstream consequences. Such as the word “cookie,” which is why we Americans don’t call them “biscuits,” as the English do.
In this episode we discuss the geopolitical and economic considerations that led to the chartering of the New Netherland Company in 1614 and the much larger Dutch West India Company in 1621, both motivated in part by the fantastic success of the Dutch East India Company. We end the episode just before the first batch of Dutch settlers are to arrive in New York harbor.
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Selected references for this episode
Eric Yanis, The Other States of America History Podcast
Russell Shorto, The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
Jaap Jacobs, The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America
Mark Meuwese, “The Dutch Connection: New Netherland, the Pequots, and the Puritans in Southern New England, 1620-1638,” Early American Studies, Spring 2011.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 92. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this episode on October 13th, 2022, in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:20.1 | We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United |
| 0:23.7 | States from the beginning without presentism. The last episode I put up was an encore presentation |
| 0:32.1 | of the Columbus Day sidebar we did last year. That was episode 91 in the counter, but I didn't edit the audio file, |
| 0:41.5 | so if you only listen to it without reading the show notes, it came as episode 42 or something |
| 0:47.4 | like that. Apparently, numbering episodes is not my strong suit. Anyway, this is episode 92, |
| 0:54.1 | as Apple counts it, not counting the two introductions. |
| 0:58.5 | The next time I do an encore, I'll record a new introduction to avoid just such confusion. |
| 1:05.0 | The year is 1623. The English settlements at both Plymouth and Virginia have confronted and survived existential crises, |
| 1:14.5 | which we covered in the last few episodes on the timeline. |
| 1:18.3 | We're not ready to put a bow around either Plymouth or Virginia. |
| 1:22.1 | Quite a bit more will happen in both places over the next few decades. |
| 1:26.5 | But for now, we've reached their respective end-of-season |
| 1:29.6 | finale, so to speak. For the next decade or more, most of the action will take place in New |
| 1:36.1 | England, New York, and New Jersey, where things are getting a lot more complicated. Before we get to |
| 1:41.9 | that, though, I do want to give a shout out to Jeff from Hingham, Massachusetts. |
| 1:47.4 | Hingham's right next door to Wameh, and Wymouth sits on the site of the doomed West |
| 1:51.4 | Augusta settlement, and the Massachusetts villages in close proximity, which we discussed at some |
| 1:57.6 | length in The Pilgrim's Play for Keeps, a couple of episodes back. |
| 2:03.8 | Jeff went over to the site of the West Augusted settlement and took a bunch of pictures, |
| 2:07.6 | which I will put up in a separate blog post on the website, The History of theAmericans.com, |
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