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Adriaen Block ( 1567 – 1627 ) was a Dutch private fur trader and navigator who explored the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages from 1611 to 1614 , following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson . He is noted for establishing early trade with the Native Americans , and for the 1614 map of his last voyage on which many features of the mid-Atlantic region appear for the first time, and on which the term New Netherland is first applied to the region. He is credited with being the first European to enter Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River and to determine that Manhattan and Long Island are islands. BLOCK'S EXPEDITIONS Early Voyages (1567-1627) Following Hudson's contact with the Native Americans in the Hudson Valley in States General , the Governing body of the Dutch Republic, to issue a statement, on March 27 , 1614, stipulating that the discoverers of new countries, harbors, and passages would be given an exclusive patent good for four voyages, to be undertaken within three years, to the territories discovered, if the applicant would submit a detailed report within 14 dIn 1614 , he made a fourth voyage to the lower Hudson in the '' Tyger '' accompanied by several other ships especially equipped for trading. While moored along southern Manhattan, the ''Tyger'' was accidentally destroyed by fire. Over the winter, he and his men, with help from the Lenape , built the 42-foot ship 16-ton '' Onrust '' (Trouble or Restless). In this latter ship, he explored the , he rendezvoused with one of the other ships of the expedition and left the ''Onrust'' behind before returning to Europe. United New Netherland Company Upon returning, Block compiled a map of his voyage together with known information of the time. The Block map was the first to apply the name " New Netherland " to the area between English Virginia and French Canada , as well as the first to show Long Island as an island. On October 11 , 1614 , Block, Christiaensen, and a group of twelve other merchants presented to the States General a petition to receive exclusive trading privileges for the area. Their company, the newly-formed United New Netherland Company , was granted exclusive rights for three years to trade between the 40th Parallel and the 45th Parallel {Link without Title} . SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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