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  2. Halve Maen - Wikipedia

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    19th-century illustration Halve Maen in the Hudson River in 1609. Halve Maen was built on a wharf on Rapenburg.. On behalf of the Dutch East India Company, she set sail from the Netherlands on April 6, 1609 under the command of the Englishman Henry Hudson to explore the northwest passage to the Pacific.

  3. Henry Hudson - Wikipedia

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    Hudson's voyages to North America. In 1609, Hudson was chosen by merchants of the Dutch East India Company in the Netherlands to find an easterly passage to Asia. While awaiting orders and supplies in Amsterdam, he heard rumours of a northwest route to the Pacific through North America. [20]

  4. Exploration of North America - Wikipedia

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    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 the Pacific via what was actually the Great Lakes.

  5. Northwest Passage - Wikipedia

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    In 1609, Henry Hudson sailed up what is now called the Hudson River in search of the Passage; encouraged by the saltiness of the water in the estuary, he reached present-day Albany, New York, before giving up. On September 14, 1609, Hudson entered the Tappan Zee while sailing upstream from New York Harbor. At first, Hudson believed the widening ...

  6. Kinderhook, New York - Wikipedia

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    In 1609 Henry Hudson sailed as far north as Kinderhook on his exploration of the Hudson River and named the location "Kinderhoek". [3] Kinderhook signifies in the Dutch tongue "the children's corner", and is supposed to have been applied to this locality, in 1609, on account of the many Indian children who had assembled on one of the bluffs along the river to see his strange vessel (the Half ...

  7. History of the Hudson River - Wikipedia

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    The Hudson River is a 315-mile (507 km) river in New York. The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609, and after whom Canada's Hudson Bay is also named.

  8. Half Moon (1989 replica) - Wikipedia

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    Half Moon is a replica of Halve Maen, the famed ship that English mariner Henry Hudson sailed up the Hudson River in 1609. The ship was constructed between 1988 and 1989 at the Snow Dock in Albany, New York, its construction commissioned by Dr. Andrew Hendricks. [1]

  9. List of New York State Historic Markers in Albany County, New ...

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    Henry Hudson: Plaza, Broadway at Foot of State St. Albany: Explorer, Here Ended the Voyage of the Half Moon in Quest of the Indies September, 1609 19: Herman Melville: 1953: Clinton Sq., N. Pearl And Orange Sts. Albany: Author of"Moby Dick", Studied and Worked During Formative Years in Albany, 1830–1838, Family Home at 3 Clinton Square, 1834 ...