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Henry Hudson by: Jack Sansone

Facts  I am remembered for finding the Hudson River.The Founding country of my voyages are Spain. In 1609 me and Half Moon (the ship) with 20 crew members explored the Hudson river from New York Harbor up to Albany. I was a famous explorer that got hired by the Dutch East India company to find all Northwest water route to all water routes to asia. The Dutch East company had an on and on trade with the Orient and wanted to shorten the lengthy of the trip and expensivesy around the Cape of Good Hope, to the Orient.

Dear journal,

They provided me with the eighty five foot tall ship, the Half moon, to sail eastward through the Polar regions to reach the far east. The ship sailed from Amsterdam on April fourth or sixth,1609, and headed northeast along the coast of Norway. After encountering ice and cold that blocked my way, I went west now.

I sailed west across the north atlantic and landed on the coast of Maine were the crew went ashore to cut wood to replace Half moons mass, finished and then traded with the Native Americans. Me and the Half moon continued along the coast south to the Chesepeak Bay and Deleware Bay. I decided these weren't entrances to the passege to the Orient he was seeking, and the Half Moon turned north toward the mouth of the Hudson River.

On September,12,1609, I began my exploreation of the river named of me. Even though no passage was discovered to the Orient, the area is the is one of the best fur trading places in the North America.

The ship (Half Moon) left the river on October 4, sailed across the North Atlantic and reaced England on Saturday, November 7. Me and the English crew members were not allowed to leave England, but the Half Moon left came back to Holland without them.

My trip was ten full years before the Pilgrams landed on Plymouth Rock two years after Jameston colony was established sixty miles south of the Chespeak Bay.