Dutch Manhattan - Buying Manhattan | 2

American History Tellers

Wondery

Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Twelve years after Henry Hudson's 1609 trip charting the Hudson River, the Dutch used his voyage as the basis for a new colony, which would be wedged between the English colonies in New England and Virginia. New Netherland began with tiny numbers of people from different backgrounds. They settled the entire region that Hudson had traveled, from Delaware to New York to Connecticut. But being spread out so thinly exposed them to danger. In 1626, in the area around the future Albany, New York, a small party became embroiled in a fight between two native tribes, and some settlers were killed.

In the aftermath, the colonists chose a new leader. Peter Minuit's first decision was to call all the settlers together for strength. Then he selected a location for a capital city, one that was strategically located in a world-class harbor and at the mouth of the colony's central river—a wilderness island called Manhattan.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music,
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0:09.0	Imagine it's the spring of 1626, your a Dutch soldier, part of an expedition in the wilderness
0:24.4	of North America, 150 miles upriver from Manhattan Island.
0:28.9	Your people have struck a friendship with the Mahikin natives in the region.
0:32.5	This is their ancestral homeland, which your agreement allows you and other Dutch newcomers
0:37.0	to farm and build homes here around a small wooden fort.
0:41.0	You are part of a military contingent attached to the settlement.
0:44.2	You're standing just inside the fort at the edge of the forest along the shore of the
0:48.0	Hudson River.
0:49.0	There are two groups gathered here, your own men, Dutch soldiers with their Flintlock
0:53.0	muskets slung over their shoulders, and a par of Mahikin Indians dressed in deer skins
0:57.9	with long black hair, armed with bows and arrows.
1:01.6	You're listening intently as your leader, Captain Daniel van Kriekenbeck, is locked
1:05.7	in conversation with the Mahikin leader, a man named Moneman.
1:09.6	They speak in a mix of Mahikin and Dutch.
1:12.7	Moneman is pleading.
1:13.7	We need your help.
1:15.0	Our village is under attack.
1:16.3	The Mohawks, our ancient enemy, have sworn to destroy us.
1:20.4	Van Kriekenbeck nods in sympathy.
1:21.9	I understand, my friend, and we made an agreement with you.
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