Some Datable Artifacts from Remains of the Hendrick Andriessen van Doesburgh House of ca. 1650-1664 in Fort Orange

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The Dutch West India Company constructed Fort Orange in 1624 on the west bank of the Hudson River about 150 miles north of Manhattan Island. In 1647 the Company began allowing private traders to build houses within the fort. Dutch deeds specified the locations of the private houses. Excavations revealed remains of three private traders’ houses, one of which was located in the southeast corner of the fort. Documents indicate the house was built about 1650 by Hendrick Andriessen van Doesburgh and was occupied until perhaps 1664, about when the house collapsed. Within the cellar was a deposit of trash above the wooden floor and below a heap of broken red bricks, yellow bricks, and pan tile fragments, from an occupation between 1650 and 1664. The latest Delft ceramics styles from the homeland are an example of the rapid transfer of Dutch material culture to New Netherland in this period.

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• Society for Historical Archaeology 2022   •
• More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade

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