The 1¢ stamp depicts the artist’s image of what the colonists' ship, the NIEU NEDERLANDT, may have looked like.
The 2¢ stamp is designed from a painting by Martha Lamb, and illustrates the landing of the Walloons on the banks of the Hudson River at Fort Orange, later to become Albany, New York.
Although they were mainly interested in trade, the directors of the WIC, the Lords Nineteen, decided to start a permanent colony in the region where the New Netherland Company had held its charter. In March 1624, the ship NIEU NEDERLANDT (New Netherland) left the Dutch Republic with thirty emigrant families aboard, mainly Walloon refugees from present-day Belgium. These colonists formed the nucleus of the future Dutch presence in the area. Some settled at present-day Albany and along the Delaware and Connecticut Rivers. Others settled at the southern tip of present-day Manhattan, where they built simple houses and Fort Amsterdam. The settlement of five farms (bouwerijen) and a few warehouses was later christened in New Amsterdam. The next year, many more Dutch settlers followed the Walloon pioneers.
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SAILING SHIP NIEU NEDERLANDT
Captain Cornelis May
Passengers were 30 Wallon families from Leyden, Holland, 18 of which were settled at Fort Orange, located on the west side of the Hudson River opposite Manhattan.
https://www.immigrantships.net/v6/1600v ... 40000.html
About the ship depicted on the stamps.
The Dutch and some American sources give that the correct name of the ship is NIEU NEDERLANDT, she was built in Hoorn, Netherland, most probably she was a flute-ship, which was built in Hoorn at that time.
On the stamp is depict a three-masted ship.
Given as 260 ton.
30 March 1624 she sailed from Amsterdam under command of Captain Cornelis Jacobson May https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Jacobsen_May of Hoorn, She was owned or chartered by the West Indies Company (WIC). The date when she arrived in the Hudson River and the emigrants disembarked I could not find, only is given that she arrived in May/June of 1624.
After Henry Hudson had discovered the Hudson River in the ship MAEN The WIC took later possession of the land which was named Nieu Nederlandt
The second governor appointed by the WIC of the colony Peter Minuit a Walloon, bought Manhattan Island from the local Indians for trinkets, worth about 60 guilders ($24)??
The story of the purchase of the island of Manhattan is well known. For most people, it proves how crafty Europeans cheat on simple American Indians.
At the end of the nineteenth century, various American historians and writers published different versions of the purchase at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The illustrations accompanying the articles depicted Dutch people in dark seventeenth-century clothing, complete with hats. Their negotiating partners looked like nineteenth-century residents of the prairies of the Midwest. The Dutch bought the island for twenty-four American dollars in beads and mirrors, or so the story went. The question, however, is whether this representation of the event is true.
The only proof
There are no receipts or transfer forms in the Dutch and American archives that can serve as proof of purchase. However, there is a letter in the National Archives in The Hague that refers to the purchase of the island. The letter was written by Pieter Schagen and dated November 5, 1626. Schagen was a member of the town hall of Alkmaar, a member of the Provincial Executive for the Region of Holland, Noorderkwartier, and member of the States-General. In addition, he occupied a directorship reserved for the States-General in the College of Messrs XIX of the West India Company. In his capacity as director, he wrote the letter to the States-General with reference to the earlier purchase. He started by telling how the Dutch men and women who lived on the island had fared until then. He also reported: "have bought the Isle of Manhattans from the savages for a value of 60 guilders". This passage in Schagen's letter is the only source directly referring to the island's controversial purchase. There is no mention of payment in worthless beads or mirrors. It is also not clear who would have bought the island on behalf of the Dutch or who would have sold the island on behalf of which Indian group. It is certain that at the time of the purchase Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was governor of New Netherlands. In all likelihood, members of the Lenape tribe have been involved in the transaction. https://geheugen.delpher.nl/nl/geheugen ... #manhattan
In 1626 Fort Amsterdam was built and the city developed around this fort, which is now New York.
In Log Book 9/11 is given that the NIEU NEDERLANDT was built in De Wits Fly, New York USA, but that is wrong.
The NIEU NETHERLAND I could find again when is given that she sailed for the WIC on 16 November 1631 for an exploration expedition to the Rio Grande, Brazil, from where she was sailing is not given.
1632 She arrived from Texel in New Amsterdam. https://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/mm_shipamny.shtml
That is the last time her name is mentioned I could find, fate unknown.
USA 1924 1c and 2c sg 618/19 scott 614/15