Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson
A Brief Statement of his Aims and his Achievements

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Henry Hudson by Thomas A. Janvier

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1909

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Henry Hudson
A Brief Statement of his Aims and his Achievements

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To Which is Added a Newly-Discovered Partial Record Now First Published of the Trial of the Mutineers by Whom he and Others Were Abandoned to their Death

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advanced to command rank.

That is the net result of General Read's most laboriously painstaking investigations. The facts for which he searched so diligently, and so longed to find, he did not find. In a foot-note he added: "The place and date of Hudson's birth will doubtless be accurately ascertained in the course of the examinations now being made in England under my directions. The result of these researches I hope to be able to present to the public at no distant day." That note was written nearly fifty years ago, and its writer died long since with his hope unrealized.

But while General Read failed to accomplish his main purpose, he did, as I have said, more than any other investigator has done to throw light on Hudson's ancestry, and on his connection with the Muscovy Company in whose service he sailed. Our navigator may or may not have been a grandson of the alderman who cut so fine a figure in the City three centuries and a half ago; but beyond a reasonable doubt he was of the family--s

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