Van Olinda, Hilletie*
Van Olinda, Hilletie*
1670 (year uncertain) to 1707 (year uncertain)
| Nation(ality): | Kanien'kéha mixed ancestry |
| Occupation(s): | interpreter |
| gender: | woman |
| residences: | New York |
Timeline
| Flourished: | 1670 (year uncertain) to 1707 (year uncertain) |
Source(s): Jasper Danckaerts on Albany. Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-80, edited by Bartlett B. James and J. Franklin Jameson, Barnes & Noble in 1911. The "original" manuscript was found in an "old book-store" in Amsterdam by Henry C. Murphy of the Long Island Historical Society in 1864. Murphy translated the document and it was first published by the society in 1867 (NY State Museum website). https://exhibitions.nysm.nysed.gov/albany/art/danckaerts.html |
Context
Possibly born to Cornelis A. Van Slyck and a Mohawk woman (name not known) in the Mohawk Valley, raised by her mother