With more than 7,000 pages translated to date, the Project has produced groundbreaking insight into the colony of New Netherland and the Dutch in colonial America. Uncovering Americas Forgotten Colony: The New Netherland Project Video showing scenes of modern-day Manhattan Narrator: Manhattan - skyscraper national park. Founded in 1974 to translate and publish the original 17th-century Dutch documents of New Netherland, the Project is one of the most ambitious translation projects ever conceived.
1.1 1st Marriage 1.2 Children: 1.3 Long Island 1.4. Join: New Netherland Settlers Project Discuss: newnetherland: Contents. In the summer of 1974, then thirty-four, Gehring found himself unemployed and saw no job prospects on the horizon. In association with The New Netherland Institute Images of Charly Gehring, Janny Venema, old documents and maps, a sailing ship. Thomas Harrison belonged to the New Netherland Community 1614-1700. For the last thirty-eight years, Gehring has struck a similar pose-delving into these crumbling documents, and coaxing them into giving up their secrets about a forgotten world.įour decades ago, however, was a completely different story for Gehring and his endless stacks of old paper. The fussy incompetence of Kieft and the disastrous results of the Indian war he had aroused led at last to his removal, and in May, 1647, a new director-general. Beside him is a cart housing dozens of other such papers, all of them rendered brittle by age, fire and ice.
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He stares at the angular letters packed onto the sheet so tightly that they look like a series of etchings. collaborations, lack of financial resources, problems finding skilled new.
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1730 Raritan, Somerset County, New Jersey colony died 1765 New Jersey including ancestors + 1 photos + 1 genealogist comments + DNA connections + more in the free family tree community. Within the project, partners in Groningen and Friesland, the Netherlands. Charles Gehring is clutching a magnifying glass and poring over a piece of yellow parchment. Compare DNA and explore genealogy for John Swick born abt.
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