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When Henry Hudson and his crew of twenty men set sail in the Half Moon, a vessel of sixty tons burden, on the 4th day of April 1609, this small ship swung clear of her moorings within the semicircular canal at Amsterdam and in front of the ìWeeperís Towerî ñ which old building is still standing and contains the Harbor-Masterís office. About and in front of this tower, on both sides of the canal, were gathered the women, children and friends of the hardy Dutch mariners about to sail on adventurous voyages. Then and afterwards, during the next fifty or more years, many crowds assembled here to see ships sailing for the far off Western shores.

Fifty-three years later, on April 8, 1662, doubtlessly from the same moorings, with the same crowd assembled, sailed for New Amsterdam the good ship Hoop (Hope), Pieter Jan Æmilius, master, having on board the following compliment of passengers:

Annetje Hendricks, wife of Jan Evertsen, shoemaker, and 5 children.
Cornelius Dircksen Hooglant, agriculturer, and wife, son and daughter.
Jacob Jansen N. Netherland, farmer, and wife and 3 children.
Adriaen Vincian, from Tournay, agriculturist.
Jochem Engelburgh, from Heusden.
Gerrit Hargerinck, from Newenhuys, and 2 sons.
Annetje Gillis van Beest, servant girl.
Jan Petersen, from Deventer, tailor, and wife and 3 children.
Jan Tunnier, from Gorckum, and wife.
Luytje Gerrits, agriculturist, from Friesland.
WILLEM LUBBERTSEN, from Meppel, agriculturist, and wife and 6 children.
LUBBERT LUBBERTSEN, from Meppel, agriculturist, and wife and 4 children.
Jan Barentsen, from Meppel, agriculturist, and wife and 5 children.
Gerrit Jacobsen, from Meppel, agriculturist.
Hanntje Barents, from Meppel, maiden.
Willem Pietersen de Groot, and wife and 5 children.
Abel Hardenbroeck, and wife and child, and servant named Casper Overcamp.
Balthaser de Vos, from Utrecht, farmer, and wife.
Hendrick Albertsen from Thellerwaerd, farmer, and 2 children.
Albert Bunertsom Gulick.
Jan Spiegelaer and wife.

The Westervelt Family