Essay On Henry Hudson

Most details on Henry Hudson's early life are a mystery because no one recorded anything about him until 1607 when he started sailing for the English Muscovy Company. Henry Hudson was most likely born in England around 1570. In his childhood, he had four brothers named Christopher, Thomas, John, and Edward. Later in his life, he ended up having a wife named Katherine and three sons named Richard, John, and Oliver.

In 1607, Henry Hudson took off sailing for the English Muscovy Company. He went in a ship called Hopewell with his son and ten other crewmembers. They ended up touching Greenland, the Svalbard Islands, and Spitsbergen. In this journey, he sailed up to 80o23' because he was trying to find the Northeast Passage. This passage would allow them to reach Asia without crossing Spain's waters. Sadly, ice blocked Henry Hudson and he had to turn around. Again, in 1608, Henry Hudson sailed out in Hopewell for the English Muscovy Company in hopes of finding the Northeast Passage. On this journey, Henry Hudson used the Novaya Zemlya Islands in the Barents Sea. For the second time though, ice blocked Hudson's ship and they had to return to England. On return, they had to share the bad news of not finding the Northeast Passage, which led the English

Muscovy Company to drop Hudson. He did report of seeing whales though, which led to English and Dutch whaling companies.
For a third time in 1609, Hudson sailed trying to find the Northeast Passage.

This time, Hudson sailed for the Dutch East India Company. He took off from the Dutch Island called Texel with 18-20 crewmembers in a ship called the Half Moon. Halfway into the journey, Hudson's crew became disobedient causing him to change routes. He ended up sailing down the east coast as far as North Carolina. While doing this, he explored present-day Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay, New York Bay, and Hudson River. This journey led to the Netherlands establishment of New Amsterdam in Manhattan in 1625. At the end of this journey, the English government also seized Hudson and told him that he could only sail for the country of his birth,

England.
On his last journey in 1610, Henry Hudson left from England in a ship called Discovery with his son and other crewmembers. He sailed through present-day Hudson Strait, into the Hudson Bay, and eventually the James Bay. While searching for a way out in the James Bay, winter came and the ice trapped Hudson and his crew. When spring came, they kept searching for an outlet to the Pacific. Finally, in June 1611, part of Hudson's crew rebelled and left Hudson, his son, and seven loyal companions in a small boat. After that point, neither Hudson nor his crew was ever seen again.