Beverwyck

Encyclopedia : B : BE : BEV : Beverwyck

This article is part of a series about New Netherland'''
Colonies:

New Amsterdam
New Haarlem
Noortwyck
Beverwyck
Wiltwyck
Vlissingen
Middelburgh
Heemstede
Rustdorp

Gravesende
Breuckelen
New Amersfoort
Midwout
New Utrecht
Boswyck
Swaanendael
New Amstel
Altena
Fortresses:

Fort Amsterdam
Fort Nassau (North)
Fort Orange
Fort Nassau (South)
Fort Goede Hoop

Fort Casimir
Fort Altena
Fort Wilhelmus
Fort Beversreede
Fort Nya Korsholm
The Patroon System
Rensselaerwyck
Colen Donck (Yonkers, New York)
Directors-General of New Netherland:
Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-1625)
Willem Verhulst (1625-26)
Peter Minuit (1626-33)
Wouter van Twiller (1633-38)
Willem Kieft (1638-47)
Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64)
Influential people
Adriaen van der Donck
Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Brant van Slichtenhorst
Cornelis van Tienhoven

Beverwyck was a fur-trading community north of Fort Orange on the Hudson River in New Netherland that was to become Albany, New York when the English took control of the colony in 1664.

During the 1640's, the name Beverwyck began to be used informally for the settlement of fur traders north of the fort. In 1652, the Dutch West India Company took control of that area and made the name official. By 1660, a palisade was build around Beverwyck and it had become economically and politically successful, with large families residing in the community.

References

[New York State Museum article.]

Another Beverwyck is situated in New Jersey, and was a large estate around the time of the Civil War. See: http://www.mta.biz/images/news/beverwyck_saa01.pdf

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.