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Howgego, Raymond John, ed. (2003). "Hudson, Henry". Encyclopedia of Exploration to 1800. Hordern House. pp. 523–525. ISBN 1875567364. Hunter, D. (2009). Half Moon: Henry Hudson and the voyage that redrew the map of the New World. New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1596916807. Juet, Robert (1609). Juet's Journal of Hudson's 1609 Voyage (PDF ...
Abacuk Pricket was the navigator of the Discovery on the fourth voyage of captain Henry Hudson.He was one of the mutineers who set Hudson adrift along with his teenage son John, and seven crewmen in a small boat, and then returned to England, eventually being one of only eight sailors who made it back to England alive. [1]
Map of Hudson's voyages to North America. After two failed attempts to reach East Asia by circumnavigating Siberia , Henry Hudson sailed west in 1609 under the Dutch East India Company . He, too, passed Cape Cod , Chesapeake Bay and the Delaware Bay , instead sailing up the Hudson River on September 11, 1609 in search of a fabled connection to ...
In 1611 four of Hudson's mutineers were killed here by Inuit and in 1612 Thomas Button had five of his crew killed somewhere near the Islands. The area was explored again soon after by Jens Munk during his 1619 voyage. [4] Henry Hudson's map depicting location of Digges Islands in the far west.
Robert Bylot (fl. 1610–1616) was an English explorer who made four voyages to the Arctic. [1] He was uneducated and from a working-class background, but was able to rise to rank of master in the English Royal Navy .
Block's map of his 1614 voyage, with the first appearance of the term "New Netherland" Adriaen Courtsen Block (c. 1567 – 27 April 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain 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 ...
On 4 May [O.S. 14 May] 1607, 105 to 108 English men and boys (surviving the voyage from England) established the Jamestown Settlement for the Virginia Company of London, on a slender peninsula on the bank of the James River. It became the first long-term English settlement in North America. [1] [2]
Ellis expedition: Voyage to Hudson Bay, in 1746 and 1747 Henry Ellis , born in Ireland, was part of a company aiming to discover the Northwest Passage in May 1746. After the difficult extinction of a fire on board the ship, he sailed to Greenland , where he traded goods with the Inuit peoples on July 8, 1746.