Hudson had planned to continue exploring when…
June 1611 CE
Hudson had planned to continue exploring when the ice cleared in the spring of 1611, but his crew had wanted to return home.
Matters come to a head and the crew mutinies in June 1611.
The person in charge of the mutiny is one of Hudson's close friends.
Those friends were Robert Juet and Henry Greene, according to Abacuk Pricket's journal.
According to the mutineers, they set Hudson, his teenage son John, and six crewmen—either sick and infirm, or loyal to Hudson, adrift in a small open boat, effectively marooning them.
According to Pricket's journal, the castaways were provided with powder and shot, some pikes, an iron pot, some meal, and other miscellaneous items, as well as clothing.
However, Prickett knew he and the other mutineers would be tried in England.
The small boat keeps pace with the Discovery for some time as the abandoned men row towards her but eventually Discovery's sails are let loose.
Hudson is never seen again and his fate is not known.
It has been speculated that Hudson was killed by his crew.
Only eight of the thirteen mutinous crewmen survive to return to Europe, and although arrested, none are ever punished for the mutiny and Hudson's (presumably resulting) death.
One theory holds that they were considered valuable as sources of information, having traveled to the New World.
Perhaps for this reason they were charged with murder, of which they were acquitted, rather than mutiny, for which they most certainly would have been convicted and executed.