Fresh River

...named the three main rivers of the province the Zuyd Rivier (South River ), the Noort Rivier (North River ), and the Versche Rivier (Fresh River ). International law required not only discovery and charting but also settlement to perfect...

In this article: New Netherland Company, Henry Hudson, Dutch West India Company, Peter Minuit, Adriaen Block, Willem Kieft, and Peter Stuyvesant

...River (at Gloucester City, New Jersey), relocated 1651, becoming Fort Casimir Fort Huis de Goed Hoop (1633), on the Park River near Fresh River (at Hartford ) Fort Casimir (1651), on the South River (at New Castle, Delaware) briefly...

In this article: New Netherland Company, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Albany, New York, Wall Street, New Jersey, and Joint venture

...is derived from the Celtic word 'ganda' which means ''confluence '' . Good Hope, from Fort Huys de Goede Hoop, a fortress on the Fresh River and Park River, the 1633 founding of Hartford Settled in In 1645 under Dutch patent by...

In this article: Hudson River, Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, Henry Hudson, and Netherlands

...grow the heart of the colony. Some of the early arrivals were dispersed upstream to Fort Orange, to the south Fort Wilhelmus, or to the Fresh River . Among those who made the crossing were many Walloons and some Africans (as company-owned...

In this article: New Netherland, Manhattan, Dutch West India Company, Treaty of Westminster, Dutch Reformed Church, Henry Hudson, Dutch East India Company, and New York

...June 19. It was abandoned and no colony was actually established. On November 16, 1629, Samuel Blommaert declared himself patroon of the Fresh River presumedly adjoining the one to the east on the Sickenames River previously registered by...

In this article: New Netherland, Amsterdam, and Tax

...from the natives). In 1652 the first garden was laid out by Hendrik Boom, the Company's master gardener, on a site close to the Fresh River (near to the Grand Parade). Later that year, the garden crossed the Fresh River (where Adderley...

In this article: Cape Town, Michaelis School of Fine Art, and Dutch East India Company

...of the rivers in their American New Netherland colony, designating what is now the Hudson as the North River, the Connecticut as the Fresh River, and the Delaware as the South River. Another story of its origin has it that the rivers...

In this article: Hudson River, Manhattan, New York City, Lower Manhattan, New Jersey, Hoboken, New Jersey, and Holland Tunnel

...ways, and gates. Fort Hoop was located on the south bank of the Little River (now Park River ), a tributary river of the Versche or Fresh River (now the Connecticut River). The directors at Fort Orange (now Albany) and Fort Amsterdam (now...

In this article: Connecticut River, Wethersfield, New Netherland, New England, and Massachusetts

...across flat, swampy terrain through the town of Epping . Upon reaching the town of Newfields , where it is joined by the Fresh River , the river turns northeast and winds through rolling terrain to Newmarket , where it reaches the Lamprey...

In this article: Piscassic River, Lamprey River, Piscataqua River, and Sawdust

The Fresh River is a 3.2 mile long (5.2 km) stream in southeastern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Piscassic River, which flows into the Lamprey River and is part of the Great Bay and Piscataqua River watershed...

In this article: New Hampshire, Piscataqua River, Piscassic River, Lamprey River, Exeter, Epping, and Atlantic Ocean