van der Donck's map of New Netherland, 1656

Title: van der Donck's map of New Netherland, 1656
Subject: New York (State)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; North America--Maps--Early works to 1800
Description: This map depicts how a Dutch cartographer named Adriaen van der Donck understood colonial Dutch space in the decades after its settlment. Are there placenames that seem familiar to you ? In any process of mapmaking one must decide what features they would like to add as well as omit. What do you think Van Der Donck omits in his depiction of the region? What might have been his motivation in doing so?
Creator: van der Donck, Adriaen
Date: 1656
Source: Adriaen van der Donck, untitled, 1656;
accessed from Wikimedia Commons, Houghton Library of Harvard University, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Houghton_US_15316.56_-_van_der_Donck,_Beschryvinge,_1656,_map.jpg
Rights: Public Domain
Type: Map
Format: .JPG
Language: Dutch
Coverage: Colonization, Settlement, and Communities (1607–1763)
Contributor: Alejandro McGhee