May 1625

  

"Cornelis Jacobsen Mey, often spelled Cornelius Jacobsz May in Dutch, 

 was a 17th-century Dutch explorer, captain, and fur trader. Mey was the first director of New Netherland and was stationed at Fort Amsterdam. 

Mey was the captain of the ship Nieu Nederlandt, which delivered the first boatload of colonists to New Netherland in north-east America." 

1614, May was the first to sail the Mauritius River, now known as the Hudson River, 

 where he entered into an agreement with various competing Indian tribal traders. On October 11, 1614,  

May became party to the New Netherland Company, which received an exclusive patent from the States General of the Netherlands for four voyages 

 to be undertaken for the next three years to territories discovered between the 40th and 45th parallels at the exclusion of all other Dutch through January 1618."

"From August 1616 to November 1616, the New Netherland Company tried unsuccessfully to secure a patent for a territory located between the 38th and 40th parallels at Delaware Bay" 

"May was the captain of the ship Nieu Nederlandt (aka New Netherland)  

which delivered the first boat load of colonists to New Netherland, first at Fort Orange, the trading post near present-day Albany, New York,  

and then on Governors Island, in present-day New York City, in 1624." 

"Having transformed New Netherland into a Dutch province, May was named the province's first director." 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Jacobsen_May 

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"May was born in the small village of Schellinkhout, just east of the town of Hoorn in North Holland. He appears to be the brother of Cornelis Jacobsz May, the first director of New Netherland. 

he brothers were cousins of the contemporaneously far more famous sailor Jan Cornelisz May, who led several expeditions to explore the Northeast passage and between 1614 and 1617, 

 circumnavigated the world with Joris van Spilbergen." 

"Jan Jacobsz May is best remembered for giving his name to the island of Jan Mayen. As part of an exploratory expedition for the Noordsche Compagnie, May visited the island in July 1614. "

"other captains apparently kept the discovery secret, perhaps so that their companies could benefit without giving the location away to the competition. "

 "The discovery allowed the Dutch company to use the island as its whaling base for the coming 35 years." 

"he is otherwise little known in his home country, where the name Jan Mayen is often thought to be of Norwegian origin." 

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"The Northeast Passage 

 (abbreviated as NEP; Russian: Северо-Восточный проход, romanized: Severo-Vostochnyy prokhod, Norwegian: Nordøstpassasjen)  

is the shipping route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, along the Arctic coasts of Norway and Russia"  

"The NEP traverses (from west to east) the Barents Sea, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, East Siberian Sea, and Chukchi Sea, and it includes the Northern Sea Route (NSR).[2][3] The Northern Sea Route is a portion of the NEP. It is defined in Russian law and does not include the Barents Sea and therefore does not reach the Atlantic Ocean. " 

"Russian settlers and traders on the coast of the White Sea, the Pomors, had been exploring parts of the route as early as the 11th century." 

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"Spilbergen met the king of Kandy (Sri Lanka)  

Vimala Dharma Suriya in 1602, and discussed the possibility of trade in cinnamon." 

"He circumnavigated the earth, and returned to the Dutch Republic in 1617.

He died a poor man in Bergen op Zoom in 1620" 

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"Captain Cornelis Jacobson Mey was an experienced captain in the Dutch merchant service. He came from Hoorn in Holland and is said to have been born in 1580.  

Around 1614, Mey was captain of the Fortune, a ship that sailed along the coast of what is now New Jersey. Cape May is named to honor this voyage.

In 1625, Mey captained the ship the Nieu Nederlandt (New Netherland), that landed  

the first thirty Dutch settler families to New Netherland. "