Cornelius hendrickson biography

Cornelius Hendrickson was a Country mariner and explorer who pert chart the North American coastline nigh present-day New Jersey.

Early life

Cornelius Hendrickson was born around 1572, the son of Lambert Barrentje Hendrickson, an admiral in blue blood the gentry Dutch Navy.

Nicknamed "Pretty Lambert", the admiral was a pal and associate of Admiral Biochemist van Heemskerk, and commanded De Tijger in the Battle take off Gibraltar of April 1607.^[1]

Onrust

In November 1613, Dutch fur trader Adrian Toilet block was preparing to return uncovered Holland with a cargo appreciated furs when his ship, high-mindedness Tyger, caught fire and was destroyed while moored in distinction North River near the vertex of Manhattan Island.

Over decency winter, Block and his troupe built the Onrust (Restless), which he used to explore class East River and Long Haven Sound. The Onrust was 44.5 feet (13.6 m) long with neat capacity of 16 tons.^[2] Later turn this way year, Block rendezvoused with Hendrick Christiaensen off Cape Cod. Earlier boarding the Fortuyn to reinstate to the Netherlands, Block improper the Onrust over to Hendrickson.

In 1614, Hendrickson navigated grandeur Onrust, through Barnegat Inlet transmit the Toms River,^[3] which filth charted, along with Barnegat Niche, and Great Bay to greatness south.^[4]

In mid-to-late 1615, Hendrickson sailed into Godins Bay (Delaware Bay) and up the Zuyd Rivier (South River) to the Schuylkill River, searching for a heart to establish a trading advertise for the Dutch West Bharat Company.

Hendricksz's voyage was feeling aboard the IJseren Vercken (Iron Hog), a vessel built encompass America.^[5]

During the winter of 1614–1615, some Dutch sailors remained disdain Fort Nassau to engage injure the fur trade. Interested affront the benefit of Dutch escutcheon, the Mohawk persuaded three survive accompany them on a assault against the Susquehannocks.

That spring the sailors were captured by the Susquehannocks who brought them south. Multiply by two the course of his explorations Hendrickson he met a convene of Susquehannock (Minquas) and payoff the three for kettles, necklet, and trade goods.^[6][7] In 1616, in Amsterdam, he filed rendering first definitive map of nobleness New Jersey coastline.

He boring in 1650, in Utrecht.

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