New York in the Age of Piracy

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"Gotham City" is most often recognized as the setting for the Batman franchise, but it turns out to be an old town near Sherwood, England. Since the 13th century it was the subject of little stories, usually portraying the inhabitants as fools at worst and tricksters at best. In 1807, New York denizen Washington Irving wrote a series of sardonic essays associating his hometown with the "antient city of Gotham", in order to mock the fashionable citizenry viewed as self-important and foolish. The nickname stuck, and the likeness isn't entirely irrelevant.
According to legend, Dutch merchants landed on Manhattan Island in 1626, and bought it from the natives for a trifling sum of 60 guilder - around one million US dollars today. Most people remember the purchase as costing 24 dollars, but that figure originated from 1846, and since then we've had a bit of inflation. Whether the story is true or not and its exact details aren't too important: but it shows that even from its inception, New York was a city of commerce. And in 17th century colonial America, the best way to make a profit, was to fund piracy.
Modern sources:
Gotham: A History of New York to 1898 - Edwin G. Burrows & Mike Wallace
Pirate Nests and the rise of the British Empire - Mark G. Hanna
The Pirate Hunter - Richard Zacks
The Pirate Wars - Peter Earle
Music:
Souterliedekens by Jon Sayles of: jsayles.com/familypages/earlym...
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:04 New Amsterdam
9:15 New York
14:55 Leisler's rebellion
20:29 Birth of a pirate nest
26:18 Crackdown
30:38 Conclusion
#pirates #history #newyork

[@GoldandGunpowder]

Related topics: Madagascar and its connection to New York: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5endq2jbKuJrrc The Red Sea Men, pirates operating out of New York: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foK0pJh-hc5loqc Biography on Henry Every, King of the Red Sea men: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iZnbYWR7pMafq7M The Fancy, Every's flagship: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJTHcoNvjcpqha8

[@Blackwolf-of5kx]

There must be a hidden pirate treasure in New York. I keep seeing people dressed like pirates in the subway. Speaking in a incomprehensible accent riddled with venereal diseases. I assume they’re looking for a treasure, but it looks to me like they’ve only gotten a few coins in their collection, which they usually have on display.

[@plmokm33]

Fucking lol

[@vajrapirate5068]

Dirty Kid Pirate Crew! Yo ho ho! Oi oi oi!

[@vorynrosethorn903]

I notice that many of them are free slaves, and their religious confessions are suspect, one told me that he was jewish, I fear this new form of papism.

[@nonya8966]

😂😂😂

[@Alliancelegacy]

Say what?

[@RachDarastric2]

Wait, so New York has only been getting worse from something that happened in the 1600s?

[@huntergray3985]

10:30 So, New York should be called the Big Orange?

[@MrDarthBudda]

No,, Fort Orange Was Futher North Near Albany NY

[@huntergray3985]

@@MrDarthBudda Ah! So I was comparing apples and oranges, so to say.

[@nicklasschmltt6959]

The big W

[@junglerajah7838]

It's nice that you're covering a region of Golden Age piracy that isn't only the lush tropical islands of the Caribbean as pop culture usually depicts as the setting of sea rovers. I hope you'll cover other regions visited by Golden Age pirates such as the Indian Ocean.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

it might be coming soon

[@davidvangerner7241]

​@@GoldandGunpowdersay can you cover piracy in the arctic oceans?

[@davidvangerner7241]

​@@GoldandGunpowderand can you also cover piracy in Canada and cover piracy in alaska and can you cover piracy in Europa and can you cover piracy in the wild west and can you cover piracy after the golden age of piracy

[@gageestes4448]

Agree with the David guy how piracy was dealt with and how it operated in snow regions would be entertaining and interesting

[@SteelKnight42]

Thank you for delving into piracy's history in the American colonies. Most discussions of the time focus only on the Caribbean, and ignore the colonies to the north that relied on their goods & trade.

[@nikitanavy4724]

WHEN I was this early Port Royal stilll existed

[@Welsh7133]

Wow you’re old af

[@vapormissile]

Flintlocks were still cutting-edge technology, & you hadn't yet even *heard* of Capt. Jack Sparrow.

[@gabrielrodriguez1536]

Me too

[@PinkyJujubean]

Arrr ya scurvy dog, yer jesting makes me jolly. Hardy har har!!

[@VivaSepulchre]

😊 lol

[@loganclark4660]

Love your work man, always focused on the history and most times not overly complicated. I'd love to see a video about merchants in the golden age of piracy, the subject could help explain why pirates attacked them so much and how in the latter golden age they depended on intimidation.

[@Alistoriv]

I'm glad that you made this video. Just a day or two ago I was wondering if you had ever covered this topic, and then I open KZbin and you've just posted one. Spooky. I became interested in New York's pirate history after I read that an ancestor of mine, Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert, had been a part owner of Abraham Blauvelt's ship La Garce. Looking forward to the follow ups.

[@charlesjohnson5694]

0330 is the pin code

[@ingold1470]

Quite astonishing that Governor Fletcher was deposed without incident, despite his strong power base that likely loved him, hated the Whigs, and had little respect for law.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

I think after the Leisler rebellion people had enough of infighting. As for Fletcher he was basically replaced with a slap on the wrist and was able to retire in peace, whereas a rebellion would've landed him a hanging

[@ingold1470]

@@GoldandGunpowderAh, a well adjusted carrot and stick. Something the Romans had more trouble maintaining!

[@user-ew2mk7ps3k]

Haha I finally became a ship's investor on patreon

[@Fezezen]

I'm not sure if you knew of his videos, but it was announced in The Pirates Port Discord server a few days ago that Thomas Weiss, the man behind The Pirates Port youtube channel, passed away.

[@michaelsmith8028]

New York! Wooden town sea rovers are made off. There's pirating to do. Now you're in New York. I apologise for the terrible joke.

[@RubenHogenhout]

I like it . The map says het Lange Eiland in Dutch and now zeerovers also a Dutch word for pirates. 😃

[@jonathanschadenfreude9603]

from the lenape tribe to the MUDD club.......where a guy named dagmar with a blue mohawk will welcome you to the dance floor, where there's just a few of those fabulous poodles doing the peppermint twist for real!

[@monkstery]

Another excellent video, golden age pirates’ presence in North America is an underrated topic in the broader subject of Golden Age of Sea Rovers history

[@AudieHolland]

The Dutch were actually victorious in the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667), having destroyed the British fleet in their Raid on the Medway. However, they traded the former New Amsterdam to the English in exchange for Surinam, which was a much more profitable colony for the Dutch.

[@Rickydiculus]

Lol at the big apple nearly being dated to be called the big orange

[@AntonioPeralesdelHierro]

We are not afraid to say Lemon. 👀🍷

[@lc1138]

Thank you for your work ! I didn't know much about the early history of New York. It's great to have a general context I can fill all the anecdotes into. Thanks a lot !

[@maverikmiller6746]

Man this video lifted my spirits. Thanks matey.

[@misterkefir]

Awesome stuff. Fascinating. Thanks a bunch.

[@unknowntrooper_2791]

Great look into the colony. Cheers!

[@ejdotw1]

Fort Orange was near present-day Albany. It was not on Manhattan Island. My family settled it (Rapalje). See 1st recorded testimony of Catalina Trico (later Rapalje.), available pdf. Also, the majority were not actually Dutch. Most had temporarily fled to Holland seeking relief from religious persecution, then sailed to the New World from Holland when religious rights were eventually curtailed there, also.

[@bleachbucket9440]

As always, great and educational video.

[@Typing.._]

Billy the kid .. the Apple 🍎 really didn’t fall far from the tree.. 🌳 🤣

[@TheHarrip]

This was just brilliant.

[@brettmuir5679]

I am going to stay tuned to your channel. I am so fascinated by the references about the Red Sea & Indian Ocean in connection to the City of New York... My mind is cast back to when Rounding the Horn was a thing that tall ships did regularly. A feat of daring for the intrepid...but done regularly just a century after Columbus sailed off the map and Magellan was not long dead... Flights of fancy come when imagining bold adventuresome times Thank you for posting this.

[@bookofroger]

LEAFERS!!!!

[@dckatyx9577]

Man, I could really go for a cup of Turkish water! I think I’ll head over to the Kings Arms.

[@kimjongil4497]

Great content 👍

[@Redneckkratos]

New York would be far better off with pirates than the……. Things there now

[@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES]

Democrat's am i right 😂

[@lordski1981]

​@@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLESFascists. They defile and ruin any and everything they even just come near....

[@dean9261]

Jews?

[@lordski1981]

@@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES Fascists amirite?

[@fabrizioruffo1799]

@@lordski1981 The famously fascistic New york

[@brettmuir5679]

Edit: upon a second watch; I had no idea about the history of William Kidd. I knew his skeleton was gibbited on wharfs of London. That he had helped in the building of St. Paul's cathedral at the end of wallstreet and owned a pew there is very informative. Old New York is an interesting walk to walk around amongst the skyscrapers whilst understanding the former skyline and countryside just beyond the wall upon Wall Street Trees and swamps and hills belonged to the rest of the Island

[@brettmuir5679]

One of the best things I ever learned is that New York is Americas most historic city, but none there remember it because of how fast things are torn down to make way for a rebuild. This fact is one of its charms and detriments at the same time... Before Central Park was a Park it was a wilderness. Broadway - the only crooked street in the city, was an Indian trail.

[@user-nt4zn3mz1g]

This is how history should be told. Many interesting details about a turbulent period.

[@paulsteele8614]

Great video

[@nobody6546]

🏆🏆. I remember reading about all the Piracy in Philadelphia & NYC a while ago when I was a Pen Pal with Ben Franklin. 😂😂😂

[@sunlightpictures8367]

Very interesting history lesson.

[@adventurewednesdays2012]

what is your source for Piet Heyn's Silver Fleet treasure funding the Dutch in New Amsterdam? And, will you be doing a profile on Heyn/Hein? I mean, he did capture an ENTIRE silver fleet without any of his men dying

[@gregalden1101]

There is an excellent book called "The Island at the Center of the World" about New York during the Dutch era. There are a couple of significant details relating to the Peach war missing this video, but covered in that book.

[@user-pu2ho4ip3d]

New york,... nowadays returning to its roots.

[@davidcunningham2074]

fascinating

[@slawda]

Gotham is also a county in the state of New Jersey, which is where Batman is supposed to be from.

[@jacktribble5253]

I guess "The Greyhound" wasn't named for its appearance... Great work on your part though. History rarely considered, but every bit as significant.

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

I love this little bit of irony given its modern image of theft and political corruption.

[@commanderbell1965]

Pirates do have cities

[@markhackett2449]

I thought Albany was Fort Orange. 1614.

[@brookingsbeachcomber]

A 'Hoy Captain

[@HYEpower]

Bravo

[@nicklasschmltt6959]

Algonquin speeking

[@triangleman9997]

Lu-NAH-pay

[@GoldandGunpowder]

heya hoya heya hoya

[@monkstery]

@@GoldandGunpowderyo ho ho and a bottle of firewater

[@brannonmcclure6970]

Remember Baltimore City was the original idea place that shifted and became New York City.👨‍🎓♾️🙂

[@michaelsmyth3935]

Albert Hicks

[@vorynrosethorn903]

One branch of the family are Dutch New Yorkers, they are hard to track the origins of however as the surname is a result of considerable Anglophone mispronunciation. The boomers in the family hope they were Jewish, they probably weren't.

[@GoldandGunpowder]

if they're dutch jewish the name might be sephardic since most of the dutch jews were sephardic jews expelled from spain

[@vorynrosethorn903]

@@GoldandGunpowder It has a 'van' in it, I very much doubt they really are of that background, though as they were rich they likely married into it at some points.

[@5thMilitia]

The Netherlands surrendered? The 3rd Anglo-Dutch War didn't end in a Dutch caputalation...

[@nobody6546]

🏆👍🏽🏆

[@jillatherton4660]

👍

[@Sugar_K]

Wtf are up with all the ads

[@steventhorson4487]

❤

[@UpNxtMedia]

Europeans were immigrants? Our ancestors should of had trump in office 😂

[@26snoopy82]

Where do you get all your research for your videos?

[@GoldandGunpowder]

sources are always listed in the video description

[@danialcourtney5969]

In to bread....three words. I heard one

[@KennyEspling]

Batman doesn't take place in Gotham, England any more than Spider-Man takes place in York, England.

[@RH-mc9sk]

Nice documentary but you need to learn to say the name "Stuyvesant" the way it's pronounced in NYC.

[@vajrapirate5068]

This has very little to do with pirates

[@monkstery]

It has plenty to do with pirates, as already explained in video New York basically funded the entire pirate round, without New York you're missing a key piece of the story behind the Red Sea and Madagascar pirates.

[@osmo8281]

This blood libel of blaming Europeans for piracy, slave trade, colonialism etc etc and not mentioning that non-European group who owned the vessels, funded the voyages and profited from the immoral trades should be a crime. Oh wait, perhaps it is --- racial vilification.

[@Ni999]

Triggered much?

[@duanerackham9567]

​@@Ni999oh yeah he's triggered alright!

[@user-wj1kg8qo3p]

Triggered that Europeans gave Africans the choice of death or slavery?

[@nathanfallin2750]

Who are you referring to, Jews?

[@duanerackham9567]

@@nathanfallin2750 that's exactly what he's doing. He's trying to blame Jewish people for everything and remove guilt from Europeans as a whole.

[@antoniescargo1529]

3621 DG Breukelen UT. BRKLN. I moved out of the Netherlands.

[@matthewmaguire3554]

all this to pave the way in nyc for THE RAMONES 🥨