Hendrick Christiaensen
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Hendrick Christiaensen was a Dutch explorer who was involved in the earlier exploration of what became the colony of New Netherland.
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Hendrick Christiaensen was a ship captain and trader employed by the Van Tweenhuysen Company of Amsterdam.[1]
In 1611 Christiaensen paid two visits to Manhattan in his ship Fortuyn, including one with fellow explorer Adriaen Block in his Tyger. Upon his return to the Dutch Republic in 1612, he brought back with him two young Native Americans who were the sons of a local sachem. The Dutch were fascinated with the boys, whom they called Orson and Valentine Christiaensen.
In 1613 Christiaensen and Block returned in the two vessels,[2] and created the first map of the region that showed Manhattan and Long Island as separate geographical entities.
