Julie van den Hout and Jaap Jacobs, who translated part of the manuscript collection of HHS, will focus on how the translated documents shed light on economic and religious aspects of daily life in New Paltz in the 1700s.
Jaap Jacobs (PhD Leiden, 1999) is affiliated with the University of St Andrews. He has specialized in early American history, specifically the Dutch in the Americas in the early modern period. He has taught at universities in the Netherlands, the United States, and the United Kingdom. His publications on Dutch New York include “The Colony of New Netherland: A Dutch Settlement in Seventeenth-Century America” (Cornell University Press, 2009) and “The First Arrival of Enslaved Africans in New Amsterdam,” New York History, forthcoming August 2023. He is currently working on a biography of Petrus Stuyvesant.
Julie van den Hout is a historian focused on seventeenth-century Dutch New York and the maritime Dutch Atlantic. She is the author of Adriaen van der Donck, a Dutch Rebel in Seventeenth-Century America, and is currently working on an article about the roles of Dutch skippers in New Netherland endeavors.
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Image Credit: Invoice and demand for payment, Simon DuBois of New Paltz, by Johannes Mauritius Goetschius, ca. 1770. HHS Archives, Daniel and Simon DuBois Family Papers.
The preservation and digitization of these documents has been made possible in part by a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Democracy demands wisdom. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this project do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The translation of Dutch language documents is supported as part of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York.
This program is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
