Beautiful and Fruitful Place

Elisabeth Paling Funk was born in Woerden, the Netherlands. She is an independent scholar, freelance editor and translator, and former adjunct assistant professor at Manhattanville College. Her articles on early American and Dutch-American literature have been published in the United States and the Netherlands. She is preparing her dissertation, "Washington Irving and His Dutch-American Heritage as Seen in A History of New York, The Sketch-Book, Bracebridge Hall, and Tales of a Traveller," for publication as a book. Martha Dickinson Shattuck is the editor and researcher with the New Netherland Research Center and the editor of Explorers, Fortunes, and Love Letters: A Window on New Netherland. She has published various articles on New Netherland, was the New Netherland and Colonial editor for The Encyclopedia of New York State, and is currently editing and annotating the New Netherland papers from the Bontemantel Collection in the New York Public Library.

"Many of the foremost scholars on New Netherland feature in this anthology that increases considerably the available scholarship on a key aspect of American history." — Hudson River Valley Review

• Introduction Martha Dickinson ShattuckRensselaerswijck Seminar 1988: "Domestic Life in New Netherland" Home is More than a Roof: Concept of Private Space Henk ZantkuijlTranslated by Wendie ShafferThe Trades in the Village of Graft A. Th. Van DeursenTranslated by Charles Forceville Rensselaerswijck Seminar 1989: "The Age of Leisler" The Pro-Leislerian Farmer: "A Mad Rabble" or "Gentlemen Standing up for Their Rights"? Firth H. FabendCredit, Court, and New York City Merchants in the Age of Leisler Dennis J. MaikaLeisler’s Pre-1689 Biography and Family Background David W. VoorheesRensselaerswijck Seminar 1990: "New Netherland and the Frontier" De Suyt Rivier: New Netherland’s DelawareCharles T. GehringRensselaerswijck Seminar 1991: "The Persistence of the Dutch after 1664"The Dutch Heritage in Nineteenth-Century American Literature Elisabeth Paling Funk"Not Hasty to Change Old Habits for New": The Dutch Colonial Legacy Joyce D. GoodfriendFrom Mutual Will to Male Prerogative: The Dutch Family and Anglicization in Colonial New York David E. NarrettRensselaerswijck Seminar 1992: "The Dutch in the Age of Exploration" Along the Spice Trails: Dutch Overseas Expansion in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Cees BakkerDutch Primacy in Ship Building: Implications of New Technology forSeventeenth-Century Naval Architecture Gerald A. De WeerdtRensselaerswijck Seminar 1993: "Manor Life and Culture in the Hudson Valley" Dutch Foodways in the Hudson River Valley Peter G. RoseRensselaerswijck Seminar 1994: "Family History: Two Branches into New Netherland Research" A Marriage of Genealogy and History IPeter R. ChristophA Marriage of Genealogy and History II Florence ChristophWringing Information from a Drowned Princess:Using the Notarial Records of Amsterdam for Historical Research Charles T. GehringWhy New Netherland Genealogists and Historians Need Each Other—An Editor’s Perspective Harry MacyNew Netherlanders and Their European Ancestry:A Survey of the State of the Art in Research of the First Settlers’ OriginsNico PlompRensselaerswijck Seminar 1995: " ‘neighbourlie correspondencye’:Relations between New Netherland and New England" The Hartford Treaty: A European Perspective on a New World Conflict Jaap A. JacobsAn Uneasy Alliance: The Dutch and English on Long Island Martha Dickinson ShattuckDid Boundaries Really Matter in Seventeenth-Century North America? Cynthia Van ZandtRensselaerswijck Seminar 1996: "The Staffs of Life: Bread and Beer" The Failure of West India Company Farming on the Island of Manhattan Jan FolkertsFrom Herbs to Hops: Outlines of the Brewing Process in Medieval Europe Vincent T. van VilsterenRensselaerswijck Seminar 1997: "The West India Company and the Atlantic World" The WIC and the Reformed Church: Neglect or Concern? W. Th. M. FrijhoffWinds of Change: Colonization, Commerce, and Consolidation in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World W. W. KloosterA Monopoly Relinquished: The West India Company and the Atlantic Slave Trade Joh. PostmaOn Common Ground: Legislation, Government, Jurisprudence, andLaw in the Dutch West Indian Colonies in the Seventeenth Century J. A. SchiltkampNew Netherland and the Atlantic World: Comments and Reflections Joyce D. GoodfriendNotes 239