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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

From Philipse Manor Hall: Don't miss this! Tonight, Tuesday, November 4, 2025, it's the Beaver Moon! Indigenous people named this super moon after the season when beavers built their winter lodges.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

I was told this symbolism came to the island via US westerns and took off in the late 60s, as the Indian rights movement reached its nadir here in the US.

APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

When I traveled through Curaçao, there were Native Caribe neighborhoods identified by caricatures of Plains Indians plastered on their entry ways.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

Enjoy my video on the Munsee-Lenape site of Wicker’s Creek, located in Dobbs Ferry, NY. youtu.be/aQ2NIrg0IqA

Wickers Creek: The Forgotten Homeland of The Munsee-Lenape

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

This was directly supported by the newly minted Dutch landed Gentry, whose unique mercantile contacts from their old ties to the Dutch overseas empire, helped them nicely skirt the parameters of the Navigation Acts.

APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

Conditional freedom grants, right to petition, wages, and even land grants were clawed back in the first two decades of English rule.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

The loss of northern Brazil brought these hardened racial attitudes to the slaving entrepôt of Curaçao, these contacts would greatly influence the Dutch Merchant class of a transitioning New York.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

The industrial size sugar production of northern Brazil and the isolation of the wild coast plantations produced harsh outcomes in the tropical disease ridden environment, but hardened racial attitudes developed in a small white Dutch population “under siege” by their enslaved.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

Experience in one particular environment could color one’s views on Slavery upon entering another. Both WIC employees and the various global refugees that populated Dutch New World possessions also brought experiences from Africa and even Asia to the table.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

Each specific area lended itself to a particular type of economic production, climate and both competing Indigenous and European players.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · 8h

Dutch Slavery varied drastically depending on the geographic location, this isn’t to be confused with the actual daily “state” of being held in bondage. The Hudson Valley was quite different from Northern Brazil, Berbice or Curaçao.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

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Russell Shorto’s Island: How a single book “Recentered” the Dutch Foundations of America - Friends of Philipse Manor Hall

I was born and raised in New York’s lower Hudson Valley. My birthplace of White Plains is located in the […]

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 11

I was honored to recently help host Russell Shorto at the Manor and sit down with him for dinner, so enjoy my review of his latest work. friendsofphilipsemanorhall.org/russell-shor...

Russell Shorto’s Island Merger: A book review of “Taking Manhattan” - Friends of Philipse Manor Hall

The Island at the Center of the World” left the reader to contemplate the Dutch origins of New York’s unique […]

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

Some wonderful artist renditions of what the Philipse Manor property would have looked like in 1750 and then in the post-Revolutionary period, when it was up for sale after the family fled for their loyalists views. The “lower mill” in Yonkers was intended as a homestead and “vault.”

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

Margot Steurbaut gave a fascinating presentation @NewNetherland Conference on the material culture of New Netherland, with a specific focus on how stained glass window sponsorship demonstrated a unique social ladder within Dutch colonial society.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

I love the idea of Vermeer and Rembrandt being representative of a light and dark version of New Netherland. The use of illumination shades helps to balance the dour Burgher or haughty Schout,

APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

Ok so I viewed all 10 Vermeer’s on display in NYC, so I’ll start with the two on loan to The Frick:

“Lady writing letter with her Maid,” 1670-71

“Love Letter,” 1699-70

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

Pretty awesome AI image of Frederick Philipse lighting a signal fire to Captain Kidd on the Hudson, I paired it with some of my actual photos of the spot. Captain Kidd is going to get himself in trouble by attacking an Armenian owned ship,

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

Dirk Mouw’s Presentation of the Dutch Reformed Church hosted by @NewNetherland : The first Dutch Reformed Church in New Netherland was founded in 1628. The Dutch Reformed Church records in New Paltz was kept in French for a period as well, this was due to Huguenot presence.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

Interesting the role that Pennsylvania plays in the “Transition Century” I’m focused on here in the Hudson Valley. From 1664-1681, Dutch merchants in New York could still reliably sail up the Delaware and Schuykill rivers to trade for furs deep within the interior.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

I find it fascinating that we see major anglicizing of Dutch names by the 1660s, still with many using the original Dutch initials to mark their identity throughout life. This was an intentional aspect of the founding of the Philipse Dynasty, Hoddenbruch to Hardenbroeck,

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

George Washington was connected to the last generation of the Philipse Family via the Battle of The Wilderness. Mary Philipse Husband Roger Morris was Braddock’s Aide-de-camp and her brother-in-law Beverly Robinson also fought alongside the future American General.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

I was recently reading about the Maroons in the Caribbean and found their history and strategies fascinating. Their battlefield tactics were particularly innovative, utilizing multiple drummers and conch shell trumpeters to disorient European forces in the dense jungle.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

One of the main stipulations of any agreement between the British Jamaican authorities and the Maroon communities was the construction of roads through the mountainous interior and the continued maintenance of those routes by the Maroons.

APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

I was recently reading about the Maroons in the Caribbean and found their history and strategies fascinating. Their battlefield tactics were particularly innovative, utilizing multiple drummers and conch shell trumpeters to disorient European forces in the dense jungle.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

The 1760 Jamaican Stamp Tax served as a model for the 1765 Act in the mainland colonies. A significant reason the British Caribbean colonies did not join the revolt was the substantial threat of slave uprisings, such as Tacky's Revolt, which nearly devastated Jamaica in 1762-1763.

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APTeacher1754 @nyqcpodcast1754.bsky.social · Sep 12

Eastchester, New York, was built upon land granted from Puritan sympathizer Thomas Pell. The land they were granted was to be centered around the old Hutchison family homestead. One of the earliest founding documents of English New York is the 1665 Eastchester Covenant,

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