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| | Long Island History: Property of the Netherlands |
 | | It is believed that Block's men made a landing on Montauk Point. | | | After his return, Block appeared before government officials, who after hearing his story declared the area he had surveyed Nieuw Nederlandt, New Netherland. | | | Explorer Adrian Block realizes Long Island is an island and claims it for his home country |
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http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs216a,0,6109119.story
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| | Block Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A historic lighthouse on the northern tip of the island was built in 1872, and a modern lighthouse, Block Island Southeast Light, is on the southeast side of the island. | | | Block Island Conservancy founded; 1/3 of island now saved from development. | | | This page was last modified 11:10, 5 October 2005. |
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| | The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1614 Ardriaen Block |
| | As Captain Block had discovered the Connecticut River and named it the Fresh-Water, and had looked into Narraganset Bay, the Dutch felt that they had a legal claim upon those regions according to the English doctrine concerning the right of discovery. | | | The Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut - 1614 Ardriaen Block | | | The potential of the region for commercial exploitation of its resources, and particularly the rich fur trade with the natives, was carefully noted and fortified trading posts were established at present Albany and Manhattan Island. |
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http://www.colonialwarsct.org/1614.htm
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| | Five Boroughs History |
| | To the cartographers of Europe the existence of Long Is]and Sound had not up to that time been suspected, for the coast line of Long Island had been merged upon the maps of that date with the mainland of New England. | | | Block at once put his new ship to use exploring waters they had not before ventured on with their larger ships. | | | As soon as he had completed this work and got everything in such a way that the channels of trade had been made smooth, Christiaensen left to rejoin his post at Manhattan. |
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| | Quahog.org: Settlers' Rock |
| | As recently as 1998 the island's population was estimated at only 965. | | | Block Island received its first European settlers in the spring of 1662, when 16 families arrived seeking to establish a democratic settlement free from religious persecution. | | | The last Block Island Indian died in 1886. |
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http://www.quahog.org/attractions/index.php?id=73
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| | Hartford Magazine, Home - Greater Hartford’s premier lifestyle magazine. |
| | But few people know who Adriaen Block was, what he did or how to even spell his name. | | | This year will see the completion of the new multimillion-dollar convention center and hotel in what’s known as Adriaen’s Landing, the centerpiece of Hartford& renovation. | | | Why the Dutch merchant-cum-mariner became the first European to chart the Connecticut River and how he could have landed in Hartford. |
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http://www.hartfordmag.com/Feature0605.htm
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| | Adriaen Block, Or Blok |
| | The island had, however, been previously discovered by English navigators. | | | He discovered Block island, which bears his name. | | | The "Tiger" was accidentally burned in port, but Block and his crew built a yacht of sixteen tons, named the " Unrest," with which he explored the neighboring waters. |
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http://www.famousamericans.net/adriaenblockorblok
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| | Adriaen Block's Map of Connecticut -- Cold Spring School |
| | I mean, how did he get the Indians to trade? | | | Adriaen Block was talking to the River Indians and found out that there was a tree, a large oak, that told them when to plant their corn by its leaves. | | | He also explored Rhode Island and found an island that became named Block Island. |
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http://www.coldspringschool.com/history/early.html
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| | Adriaen Block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | On October 11, 1614, Block, Christiaensen, and a group of twelve other merchants presented to the States General as a petition to receive exclusive trading priviliges for the area. | | | 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. | | | The Block map was the first to apply the name "New Netherland" to area between English Virginia and French Canada, as well as the first to show Long Island as an island. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaen_Block
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| | Adriaen's Landing Bond Allocations |
| | This project is part of the Adriaen's Landing initiative. | | | This project is part of the Adriaen's Landing economic development effort. | | | The project is named for Adriaen Courtsen Block, a 17th Century Dutch explorer who is believed to be the first European to land in what now is present-day Hartford. |
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http://www.osc.state.ct.us/finance/reports/adriaenslanding.asp
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| | Bellerose Ave. School |
| | He discovered Long Island, land we now live on his name is Adriaen Block. | | | Block, was the skipper of his ship " The Tiger ". | | | Block sailed around Long Island and landed in what is now Montauk. |
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| | Maps - Fordham University Libraries |
| | Block was the first European to circumnavigate Manhattan and Long Island. | | | He delivered the manuscript map (from which this map is engraved) to the States General in order to support Adriaen Block's original claim to New Netherland. | | | However, the name New England is added based on the 1616 John Smith map (backdated to 1614) that formed the original New England claim. |
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http://www.library.fordham.edu/Maps/maplisting.html
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| | Block Island |
| | Block Island formed about 12,000 years ago when the glacier from the last Ice Age finally receded, leaving the sandy moraine which now makes up Long Island, Block Island, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. | | | There is a stone monument to this event erected in 1942 by the Block Island Historical Society. | | | Civil War -- population had grown from 25 to about 1350. |
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http://nynjctbotany.org/lgtofc/blockisl.html
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| | AllRefer.com - Adriaen Block (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia |
| | Block made the Figurative Map of 1614, showing details of the southern coast of New England and showing (the first to do so) Long Island and Manhattan as separate. | | | After wintering near Albany, Block sailed from the Hudson into Long Island Sound (1614), which he may have been the first European to enter, coming in through the East River passage that he named Hellegat (Hell Gate). | | | More articles from AllRefer Reference on Adriaen Block |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Adriaen Brouwer |
| | Block, Adriaen (lived early 17th century), Dutch navigator, who explored the northeastern coast of what is now the United States. | | | Brouwer (or Brauwer) was probably a student and associate of... | | | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Adriaen Brouwer |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Adriaen_Brouwer.html
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| | Adriaen Block - New York |
| | He sailed up the East River as far as Long Island Sound before his ship, the Tyger, was destroyed in a fire. | | | Adriaen Block (1567-1627) was a Dutch explorer and fur trader who visited Manhattan in the early 17th century. |
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| | Antique Map Blaeu New England |
| | Blaeu does not appear to have updated this part of his map. | | | Some of these could be accounted for by the fact that the surviving figurative map is not original, and that the copiest omitted some placenames that are referred to in the text of de Laet's work. | | | Based on a manuscript map by Adriaen Blockx (after whom Block's Island is named), this was an important map for many years and influenced later maps in no small degree. |
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| | Block Island -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | More results on "Block Island" when you join. | | | One of the earliest indications that some blocks of seafloor are moving relative to other such blocks was that while the age of young volcanic islands or seamounts shows no relationship to distance from spreading mid-oceanic ridges, old features of this sort are never found near the ridges. | | | This relationship can be readily explained if new seafloor is created at the... |
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| | Hendrick Christiaensen - New York |
| | Upon his return to the Netherlands following the second of his trips, he brought back with him two young Indians, who were the sons of a local sachem. | | | He again returned to Manhattan, and with Adrien Block, he created the first map of the region that showed Manhattan and Long Island as seperate geographical entites. | | | In 1611, Christiaensen paid two visits to Manhattan, including one with fellow explorer Adriaen Block. |
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http://newyork.wikicities.com/wiki/Hendrick_Christiaensen
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| | The Providence Section of the IEEE Meeting Announcement - Block Island Summer Escape |
| | Take the ferry to Block Island, where we will embark on a historical and ecological tour of the island. | | | After the tour those who are so inclined can join a group that will be treated to a talk and demonstration by an islander who generates his own electricity by wind power. | | | The Block Island Ferry is located at the Galilee State Pier, across from the Department of Environmental Management. |
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| | Brouwer, Adriaen -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | There he was arrested and imprisoned by the Spaniards as a spy until September 1633. | | | Block Island, near the mainland, was named for the Dutch captain Adriaen Block, who sailed along its coast in 1614. | | | More results on "Brouwer, Adriaen" when you join. |
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| | Long Island Sound - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The first European to record the existence of Long Island Sound was the Dutch navigator Adriaen Block, who entered the sound from the East River in 1614. | | | On its eastern end it is connected to Block Island Sound. | | | Including all islands, the Long Island Sound has a shoreline of 548 miles (882 km). |
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| | Hartford History: Who the Heck is Adriaen? |
| | Yet reminders of Block and his countrymen remain. | | | The following year, Block visited the island just off the coast of Rhode Island that would eventually be named Block Island. | | | Adriaen Block was a Dutch explorer who sailed up the Connecticut River in 1614 aboard the Onrust, the first American-built ship. |
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| | Westbrook Concrete Block News |
| | Look for both of these projects to be completed and open to the public in the summer of 2004. | | | Their goal was to express themselves in a unique way, both with their products and their facilities, in order to create a building which would attract customers. | | | Members of the Westbrook Block production staff were able to construct molds in order to produce these units so that they would be able to be used with the polishing machinery. |
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http://www.westbrookblock.com/news/index.shtml
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| | Tyger |
| | The Tyger was the ship used by Dutch captian Adriaen Block during his 1613-1614 voyage to explore the East Coast of North America and the present day Hudson River. | | | Over the winter, Block and his men, with help from Lenape Indians, built the Onrust (Restless), which they used to explore the East River and Long Island Sound before returning to Europe in 1614. | | | In 1916, workmen uncovered the prow and keel of the Tyger excavating a new station for the New York City subway near the intersection of Greenwich and Dey streets (the area having been since filled in with landfill). |
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| | Narragansett Bay |
| | The bay has several entrances, however, and the exact route of his voyage and the location where laid anchor is still a subject of dispute among historians, leading to a corresponding uncertainty over which tribe made contact with him (see [1], [2]). | | | In 1614, the bay was later explored and mapped by the Dutch navigator Adriaen Block, after whom nearby Block Island is named. |
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| | Greater Hartford Convention and Visitor's Bureau |
| | The Capital City Economic Development Authority was formed to oversee the development of these projects. | | | Supported and assisted by The Travelers Group, CTG Resources, Inc., the City of Hartford, the State of Connecticut, and numerous regional organizations, the study grew to include over 30-acres of land and associated air rights in a publicly funded mixed-use complex. | | | The development of this land was given the project name Adriaen's Landing, named for Dutch mariner Adriaen Block, who in 1614 became the first European explorer in the Connecticut River valley region. |
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http://www.enjoyhartford.com/base/content.cfm?section=meeting&dir=meeting&page=landing&sub1=convention&sub2=landing&sub3=&cat=shopping
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| | "Groton-New London Airport" |
| | Henceforth, the New York Congress granted them Continental Soldier pay, and the Boys became members of the Assembly Army, who went on to make their mark in American history. | | | 1614 &; Adriaen Block (Holland) left the island of Manhattan on the Onrust (trans.: the Restless), a 45-foot, 16-ton vessel, and set of to explore Long Island Sound. | | | Aptly, the Sound's Block Island is named this explorer. |
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http://www.grotonnewlondonairport.com/ancient.shtml
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| | Connecticut Convention Center - Articles |
| | It was to be named Adriaen's Landing, for an obscure Dutch explorer, Adriaen Block, who sailed up the Connecticut River and disembarked at the site in 1611. | | | Robert A. Stern will be the master planner of Nitkin's projects, which are to occupy the west side of the Adriaen's Landing site. | | | IN 1997, a group of Hartford insurance and utility executives proposed an ambitious - some would say quixotic - 33-acre mixed-use project for Hartford, then mired in a long and deep recession. |
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| | Quahog.org: Adriaen Block |
| | There was really no reason for him to do otherwise. | | | The story of how Block Island got its name. | | | Although the official name of the island is New Shoreham, everybody calls it Block Island, named for the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block—a Rhode Island Portrait in Sound. |
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| | The project is named after the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, who landed in Hartford in 1614. | | | Lawmakers say Adriaen's Landing will benefit Connecticut residents who don't live in Hartford, yet are footing a $500 million tab pledged by the state. | | | It has been touted as a much-needed boost to Hartford, which lost population, jobs and industry during the 1990s. |
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| | CCEDA - Adriaen's Landing |
| | Adriaen's Landing is named for Dutch mariner Adriaen Block, who in 1614 became the first European explorer in the Connecticut River valley region. | | | Led by CCEDA, the initiative enjoys substantial support from the City of Hartford, and the vision and aid of myriad corporate, non-profit, neighborhood and other organizations. | | | Tying together acclaimed destinations such as the Connecticut River and the Wadsworth Atheneum, the development is part of a comprehensive effort that is re-energizing Connecticut's Capital City of Hartford and the region. |
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| | Articles - Hartford, Connecticut |
| | A master plan has been created by the board of trustees and Cesar Pelli of New Haven has been chosen as the architect for the project. | | | The Old State House (the oldest in the nation) recently underwent a major refurbishing project and has been returned to its original splendor. | | | The Atheneum also plans to expand into the Hartford Times Building near the Adriaen's Landing site. |
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| | Introduction to Connecticut - The United States of America |
| | Geographically, it is the third smallest state, even though its original charter, granted in 1662, extended the land grant west to the Pacific Ocean. | | | onnecticut is a small state to be sure but it has been one of the most vigorously independent and productive since Dutch explorer Adriaen Block discovered the Connecticut River in 1614. |
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http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/ct_intro.htm
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| | Giovanni Verrazzano |
| | In 1614, the Dutch navigator Adriaen Block landed on Verrazzano's island of Luisa and, in a fit of modesty, renamed the island after himself. | | | Roger William's people then later thought Verrazzano's reference to an island the size of Rhodes meant Aquidneck (they missed the part about it being ten leagues distant) - hence the mixup. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Block Adriaen |
| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Block Adriaen | | | Long inhabited by Native Americans of the Saukiog tribe, the area was first visited by Europeans when Adriaen Block, a Dutch navigator, explored the... | | | Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/Block_Adriaen.html
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| | In 1613/14, Adriaen Block, a Dutch explorer and fur trader, sailed around Long Island, and sketched out its overall appearance. | | | A number of important place names make their first cartographic appearance on this map. | | | Lake Champlain is still displaced far to the east--a feature which Block copied from an unpublished map by Champlain. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: October 11 |
| | 1614 - Adriaen Block and 12 Amsterdam merchants petition the States General for exclusive trading rights in the New Netherland colony. | | | 1950 - The Federal Communications Commission issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS (RCA will successfully dispute and block the license from taking effect, however). |
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