Wiltwijck's Dutch settlers remain suspicious after the…
October 1663 CE
Wiltwijck's Dutch settlers remain suspicious after the second war of all native peoples with whom they come into contact.
Reports made to the Dutch government in New Amsterdam cite misgivings about the intentions of the Wappingers and even the Mohawks, who have helped the Dutch defeat the Esopus.
Dutch prisoners taken captive by natives in the Second Esopus War had been transported through regions no white man had yet seen.
Upon their release, they describe the land to the Dutch authorities, who set out to survey it.
Some of this land will later be sold to Huguenot refugees from Mannheim in the German Palatinate, where they are to establish the village of New Paltz in 1678.
Groups
Palatinate, Electoral (Wittelsbach)
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Mohawk people (Amerind tribe)
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Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans)
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Wappinger (Amerind tribe)
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Huguenots (the “Reformed”)
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Netherlands, United Provinces of the (Dutch Republic)
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New Netherland (Dutch Colony)
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