Kees-Jan Waterman (1962-2018) was a Jacob Leisler Institute trustee, historian, translator, digital data expert, and recognized scholar on the collision of Indian and European peoples in North America (particularly the Hudson and Mohawk valleys) during the colonial era.
After his death, Waterman’s family donated his extensive collection of historical materials to the Institute. Comprised of more than one hundred books, personal papers (including manuscript translations and research notes), and ephemera, the Waterman Collection makes the Jacob Leisler Institute an essential repository of documentary sources on the early British period in New York.
A finding aid for the Kees-Jan Waterman Papers is in progress. Researchers can search for books in the Waterman collection here.
A selection of Kees-Jan Waterman’s historical scholarship
Munsee Indian Trade in Ulster County, New York, 1712–1732. Syracuse University Press, 2013. Includes a Section from the Anonymous “Account Book, 1711-1729” (in Dutch), Philip John Schuyler Papers (Volume 11): A Manuscript in the Holdings of the Manuscripts and Archives Division, New York Public Library.
“Not Confined to the Village Clearings: Indian Women in the Fur Trade in Colonial New York, 1695-1732.” New York History 94 (1-2), 40-58. [2013] The paper on which this article was based is available here.
Review of: William A. Starna’s From Homeland to New Land: A History of the Mahican Indians, 1600-1820 (Lincoln, NE, 2013) in de Halve Maen: magazine of the Dutch colonial period in America, vol. 86, no. 4, 2013, 83-84.
Review of: Elisabeth Paling Funk and Martha Dickinson Shattuck’s (eds.), A Beautiful and Fruitful Place; Selected Rensselaerswijck Papers, volume 2 (Albany, NY, 2011) in de Halve Maen vol. 85, no. 2, 2012, 40-41.
Review of: Janny Venema’s Kiliaen van Rensselaer (1586-1643); Designing a New World(Hilversum / Albany, New York, 2010) in Holland: historisch tijdschrift 43 (4), 377-378. [2011]
With Jaap Jacobs and Charles Gehring, Indianenverhalen: De vroegste beschrijvingen van Indianen langs de Hudsonrivier (1609-1680). Zutphen: Walburg Pers., 2009.
“To do justice to him & myself”: Evert Wendell’s account book of the fur trade with Indians in Albany, New York, 1695-1726. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2008.
“Parameters of the Fur Trade in New Netherland: Eighteenth-Century Evidence?” in M. Bruijn Lacy, C. Gehring, & J. Oosterhoff (eds.), in From De Halve Maen to KLM; 400 Years of Dutch-American Exchange (pp. 135-148). (Studies in Dutch Language and Culture; vol. 2, 2008). Nodus Publikationen.
Review of: Paul Otto’s The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America; The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley (New York, 2006) in de Halve Maen, vol. 79, no. 3, 2006, 55-56.
“Dutch Political Life under English Rule: Albany, N.Y., During Leisler’s Rebellion, 1689-1690.” in C. E. Kratz, & M. E. Craft (eds.), Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic Historical Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (MAHACCU) (pp. 112-120). University of Scranton Press. [1994]
“Leisler’s Rebellion, 1698-1690: Being Dutch in Albany.” The Maryland Historian, 22 (2), 21-40. [1994]
Acquisition of the Kees-Jan Waterman Collection was made possible by the heirs and through the support of the Dutch Culture USA program by the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in New York.
