Adriaen Block
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Adriaen Courtsen Block 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 dur
Captain Block and crew building the Onrust in 1614, as imagined in a 19th century engraving
Replica of the Onrust docked in Manhattan.
Block Island
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Block Island is an island of the Outer Lands coastal archipelago in New England, located approximately 9 miles south of mainland Rhode Island and 14 miles east of Long Island's Montauk Point. The isla
Adriaen Block
…Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614, following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson. He is noted for possibly having named Block Island, Rhode Island, and establishing early trade with the Native Americans, and for the 1614 map of his last voyage on which many features of the mid-Atlantic…
Block Island looking north over Block Island Sound. The coast of Rhode Island is seen in the distance.
The Niantics defending themselves on Block Island in the summer of 1637
The Block Island Southeast Light
New Harbor - The Great Salt Pond