The New Amsterdam History Center presents
Shipwreck and Salvation - The Wreck of The Prince Maurice 1657
Wednesday - July 17, 2024
6 to 7:30 PM
Location: ZOOM
Presenters
Toya Dubin - Mapping Early NY Project Director
Drew Shuptar-Rayvis - Algonkian Historical Consultant
On the night of March 8, 1657, as a Nor’easter raged, a Dutch ship, The Prince Maurice, slammed into the coast of Fire Island. Aboard were 129 souls – passengers, crew and Dutch West India Company soldiers. Ashore were Indigenous people on their coastal night watch, listening to the ship crash against the shoal.
Until now the story of this dramatic Long Island shipwreck and rescue has been known only to a handful of historians. But the rescue on an ice laden beach has been part of Indigenous history for 400 years.
This program was initially presented live at the Port Washington Library on Long Island in May, 2024
Admission is free of charge
Reservations are required.
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events@newamsterdamhistorycenter.org
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Major Funding for this project provided by:
Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames, The Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Dutch Culture USA, the First Families of New York, Ken Chase, Port Washington Public Library’s Nautical Advisory Council, and the supporters of the New Amsterdam History Center. Thank you.
Toya Dubin helped to launch the NAHC’s Mapping Early New York, a detailed encyclopedia of Dutch Colonial History linked to 3D models and maps of the Castello Plan, the earliest map of New Amsterdam. Ms. Dubin is President of Hudson Archival, responsible for the digitization of the Dutch Documents collection at the New York State Archives. She lives in the Hudson Valley surrounded by Dutch history.
Drew Shuptar-Rayvis (Pekatawas MakataweU “Black Corn”) holds a cum laude Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Sociology from Western Connecticut State University and a Certificate Degree in Archaeology from Norwalk Community College. He was the first garden manager of Western Connecticut State University’s Permaculture Garden, and practices Native horticulture. Elected by his Paramount Chief Norris Howard Senior and council member Norris Howard Junior as Cultural Ambassador of the Pocomoke Indian Nation of Maryland, he is the Algonkian Historical Consultant for the New Amsterdam History Center and his work for the Maryland State Archives involves collecting oral histories for the MAYIS project.
