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    Adrian Block Biography

    Adriaen Block (fl. 1610-1624) was a Dutch navigator who explored the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during the 1610s following the 1609 expedition by Henry Hudson.

    He is noted for establishing early trade with the Indians, and for the map of his voyage on which many features of the mid-Atlantic region appear for the first time, and on which the term New Netherland is first applied to the region.

    He is credited with possibly being the first European to enter Long Island Sound and the Connecticut River.

    Block's Expeditions
    Early Voyages (1610-1612)
    Following Hudson's contact with the Indians in the Hudson Valley in 1609, the Dutch merchants in Amsterdam had deemed the area worth exploring as a potential source of trade for beaver pelts, which were a lucrative market in Europe at the time.

    The following year in 1610, at the commission of a group of merchants, Block and fellow captain Hen