The History of the Dutchess County Land

I became completely fascinated by my own land. I used to be a geologist, at least that's what I got my degree in, donkeys years ago. So I started to go down, it's about 50 minutes from where I live now, and try to see the trees and the rocks and the rivers and know something of its history. And obviously I found my deed, the transfer of ownership from the man called Caesar Luria who had owned it before me. But then 17th century documents which sort of doesn't specifically mention my land were no longer in the English language. They were in Dutch reminding me that the Hudson River, discovered as it was by Henry Hudson, he was