David Pietersen de Vries
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Captain David Pietersz de Vries (c. 1593, La Rochelle - probably 1662, Hoorn[1]) was a Dutch navigator from Hoorn, Holland, and patroon of the company that founded the Zwaanendael Colony in Lewes, Delaware.
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In 1631, 28 colonists sailed to North America under the leadership of de Vries and established the colony with five more from New Amsterdam. Shortly thereafter, de Vries left the men returned to Holland. Upon his return visit in 1632, de Vries found the settlers massacred and their fort burned to the ground. [2]
He returned on trading trips to North America several times, eventually establishing patroonships on Staten Island (1639) and at Tappan, known as Vriessendael (1640)[3]
De Vries often acted as a go-between between the Lenape and the government at New Amsterdam, directed by William Kieft. After the Dutch attack and Indian reprisals at Pavonia, he was influential in bringing the Hackensack Indians sachem Oratam to negotiate a truce with them. Unfortunaely the cease-fire did not hold, and war broke out.[4] Disenchanted by the New Netherlanders treatment of the indigenous population, he left his farm at Vriessendael in October 1643, and returned to Holland.[5]
In 1655 he published "Korte Historiael Ende Journaels Aenteyckeninge" (Short Historical Notes and Journal Notes of Various Voyages).[6]
In front of the The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes, Delaware, designed after the City Hall of Hoorn, stands a statue of De Vries. [7]
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- ^ Joris van der Meer Koopman in de West; De indianen en de Nieuw Nederlanders in het journaal van David Pietersz. De Vries, 2001 (Dutch)
- ^ "Voyages of De Vries." New York Historical Society Collection (new series), vol. iii. page 23.
- ^ Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, by John Romeyn Brodhead, et al., published 1881
- ^ Ruttenber,E.M.,Indian Tribes of Hudson's River, ISBN 0-910746-98-2 (Hope Farm Press, 3rd ed, 2001)
- ^ Joris van der Meer Koopman in de West; De indianen en de Nieuw Nederlanders in het journaal van David Pietersz. De Vries, 2001 (Dutch)
- ^ Joris van der Meer Koopman in de West; De indianen en de Nieuw Nederlanders in het journaal van David Pietersz. De Vries, 2001 (Dutch)
- ^ http://history.delaware.gov/museums/zm/zm_main.shtml
