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Author Venema, Janny

Title Beverwijck : a Dutch village on the American frontier, 1652-1664 / Janny Venema
Published Hilversum, the Netherlands : Verloren ; Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (527 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Beverwijck -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Introduction -- Problem defined -- Historiography and definition -- Method and sources -- I. Constructing a Village: material planning -- Van Slichtenhorst, Rensselaerswijck, and the Indians -- Van Slichtenhorst and Van Twiller's rule in Rensselaerswijck -- Van Slichtenhorst and the Machicans -- Van Slichtenhorst and the Maquaes -- Planning a center for Rensselaerswijck -- Value of maps -- Building a bijeenwoninge -- Company versus patroon: Escalation of the conflict
Developement of BeverwijckDistributing Patents -- Laying out the village -- Roads and Bridges -- Lots and fences -- Houses -- Other spaces and construction on the lots -- Gardens -- Constructions of general interest to the community -- Corps de guarde -- The Blockhouse church -- The poor house -- A school -- Mills -- Brick and tile yards -- Indian accommodations -- Palisades -- Conclusion -- II. Beverwijck: Creating an orderly village -- Beverwijck's society -- A mix of people -- Burghership -- The burgher gaurd -- Community feelings
Forced labor: SlavesStabilizing factors in a new society: The State -- The court -- Orphan masters -- Medical care -- Stabilizing factors in a new society: The church -- Church and state -- A public church -- The minister -- The consistory -- Other church functions -- Education -- Charity -- A new environment: Contact with Indians -- Beavers and sewant as currency -- Meetings and the exchange of gifts -- Communication: Maintaining an iron chain -- Indian-Dutch relationships -- Conclusion -- III. The Van Rensselaers as commercial entrepreneurs
Trade in the upper HudsonThe trading season -- Trade items -- Trade regulations -- The role of women -- The Van Rensselaers and the trade -- Maintaining the trade in Amsterdam -- Maintaining the trade in New Netherland during Jan Baptist's directorship -- Maintaining the trade in New Netherland during Jeremias' directorship -- Place in the community: Life style -- The patroon's property in Beverwijck -- The patroon's house on the inside -- Outer appearence: Clothing -- Social life: The importance of friends
Social life: Maintaining friendships in the New WorldChurch memberships -- Marriage -- Family life: Illness, children, and friends -- Conclusion -- IV. Successful burghers -- Dirck Jansz Croon -- Active in two worlds -- Back in Amsterdam -- A family trading network -- Pieter Hartgers -- Family ties -- An active community member -- A farewell to Beverwijck -- Volckert Jansz -- Early arrival and trade -- Cooperation and investment in land -- A German Lutheran in a Dutch Reformed village -- Philip Pietersz Schuyler -- Gunstocks, marriage, and trade
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 484-501) and indexes
Notes Summary in Dutch
Subject Dutch Americans -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 17th century
Frontier and pioneer life -- New York (State) -- Albany
Indians of North America -- New York (State) -- Albany -- History -- 17th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Civilization -- Indian influences.
Dutch Americans.
Ethnic relations.
Frontier and pioneer life.
Indians of North America.
Social conditions.
Nederlanders.
Nederzettingen.
SUBJECT Albany (N.Y.) -- History -- 17th century
Albany (N.Y.) -- Social conditions -- 17th century
Albany (N.Y.) -- Ethnic relations
United States -- Civilization -- Indian influences -- Case studies
Subject New York (State) -- Albany.
United States.
Genre/Form Case studies.
History.
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003054445
ISBN 9780791485019
0791485013