Via Warner Library:
Dutch Settlers in the Hudson Valley in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
A lecture by Firth H. Fabend
Firth Fabend presents a brief overview of the Dutch people who settled in the Hudson Valley in the 17th and 18th centuries. Fabend asks, who were these Dutch people who replanted themselves in the Hudson Valley when it was a wolf-infested wilderness? Why did they come to America? And why is their cultural influence still felt in the area today? She examines the importation of slavery, the patroon system of land
management, family structure, domestic architecture and house furnishings, the religious culture, and the winsome beauty of the land.
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Firth Haring Fabend is an independent historian with a Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. She is the author of the prize- winning works A Dutch Family in the Middle Colonies, 1660-1800 and Zion on the Hudson: Dutch New York and New Jersey in the Age of Revivals, both published by Rutgers University Press. She has also recently published a historical novel, Land So Fair, set in the Hudson Valley in the eighteenth century. She is a Fellow of the New Netherland Institute, The Holland Society of New York, and the New York Academy of History.
