Adriaen (Aerjan) Block

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• Residence: 1606

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Occupation:
Dutch private trader and navigator
Quelle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Block
Adriaen (Aerjan) Block (ca. 1567 , Amsterdam - buried April 27 , 1627 , Amsterdam) was a Dutch private trader and navigator who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614 , following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson . He is noted for establishing early trade with the Native Americans , and for the 1614 map of his last voyage on which many features of the mid-Atlantic region appear for the first time, and on which the term New Netherland is first applied to the region. He is credited with being the first European to enter Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River and to determine that Manhattan and Long Island are islands.
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After his return to Amsterdam in July 1614 he would not return to the New World again. No less adventurous, while approaching 50 years of age, he headed whaling operations for the in January 1914 established Noordsche Compagnie in the Bellsund of Spitsbergen . He remained sailing until his death in 1627. He was buried in Amsterdam's Oude Kerk in a grave next to his wife

Residence:
a house called "De Twee Bontecraijen" (The Two Hooded Crows) on Amsterdam's Oude Waal street

Adriaen giftet seg med Neeltje Hendricks van Gelder 26 Okt 1603, Amsterdam, Nederland. [Gruppeskjema] [Familiediagram]

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Gift:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Block