Lectures & History

One of the First Colonists, Catalina Trico Pieter Schaghen writes in his letter to the States General with news from New Netherland in 1626: “our people there are doing well and living in peace.

In1625 an “animal fleet"was sent to the colony in a convoy of three vessels. About were103 head of stallions and mares, bulls and cows, sheep and pigs.

This famous letter stating that the settlers were able to successfully grow crops and had negotiated a peaceful relations with principally the Indians, but also the English, who were rivals with the Dutch for control of territory in North America.

An “Interview” with One of the First Colonists, Catalina Trico in New Amsterdam in 1664 on live in the colony.

In April 1625, the directors of the West India Company contracted for 103 head of stallions and mares, bulls and cows, for breeding and multiplying as well as a number of sheep and pigs.