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Delaware Bay Vinckeboons 14
1639
- Classification
- Photograph
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- Library of Congress[1]
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Nautical chart of Zwaanendael ("Swanendael") and Godyn's Bay in New Netherland. Zwaanendael was a patroonship founded by Samuel Godyn, a director of the Dutch West India Company, in 1629. Godyn made his land claim to the West India Company under jurisdiction of the Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions. After a short time, the initial 32 inhabitants were murdered by local Indians and Godyn sold his land back to the West India Company. The West India Company kept the names of the local area, including Godyn's Bay, which eventually became Delaware Bay. Ink and watercolor with pictorial relief.
The text in Dutch at left side of the map reads:
De natien aende Zuydt Rivier syn Groote Sironese Aende Hoerenkil
Sewapois Remkokes Kleyne Siconese Minquaen toegenaemt Machaorikyns. Naraticonck Atsayonck Mantaes Rechaweygh Armewamix Matikongh Momakavaongk Sankikans.
Dese booven geschreeven natien hebben altesaemen vrintschap onder malcander, ende syn meest eenerlay volc ende van Een Spraeck, uytghe sondert de Machaoretijns die so genoemt syn van weegen haar Spraeck die Minquaens is en wil so veel geseyt syn als by ons ouduytsche ofte waellin
Het leeven van deese luyden is volcoomelyck vry.…
