New Netherland Connections: Intimate Networks and Atlantic Ties in Seventeenth-Century America

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New Netherland Connections This book was the winner of the JAMESTOWN PRIZE FOR 2013 and the ANNUAL HENDRICKS AWARD OF THE NEW NETHERLAND INSTITUTE FOR 2013 New Netherland Connections IntimateNetworksandAtlanticTiesin Seventeenth-CenturyAmerica • • • SUSANAH SHAW ROMNEY Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture is sponsored jointly by the College of William and Mary and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. On November 15, 1996, the Institute adopted the present name in honor of a bequest from Malvern H. Omohundro, Jr.© 2014 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed and set in Espinosa Nova by Rebecca Evans Ship and passengers with flags of Amsterdam. Woodcut. From Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy, Kort en klaer ontwerp, dienende tot een onderling Accoort. . . . (Amsterdam, 1662), aiiir. This item is reproduced by permission of The Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Romney, Susanah Shaw. New Netherland connections : intimate networks and Atlantic ties in seventeenth-century America / Susanah Shaw Romney.—1st edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4696-1425-0 (hardback)—ISBN 978-1-4696-1426-7 (ebook) 1. New Netherland—History. 2. Social networks—New Netherland. 3. New Netherland—Ethnic relations. 4. Women—New Netherland. 5. Indians of North America—New Netherland. 6. African Americans—New Netherland. 7. Dutch—New York (State)—History—17th century. 8. New York (State)—History—Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775. 9. Amsterdam (Netherlands)—Emigration and immigration—History— 17th century. I. Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture. II. Title. F122.1.R65 2014 974.7′1—dc23 2013042706 The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. 18 17 16 15 14 5 4 3 2 1 To Charles, with all my love This page intentionally left blank ...