Employed by the Dutch East India Company, English mariner, Henry Hudson, seeks a Northeast trading passage to China in the Half Moon. 5 months later, he anchors at Sandy Hook and introduces European goods, alcohol and firearms to the Algonquins.
Island name Manahacktanienk meaning, "where everybody got drunk" after natives are supplied with brandy.
Area has wells and springs - hence Spring and Canal Street - and a 48-acre pond.
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