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Henry Hudson was an English explorer, who sailed along the North East coast of North American. His early life is unknown, for there is not even a record of the year he was born. His final days are a mystery, after his mutinous crew set him adrift in the bay that bears his name, June 1611. It is believed that he could have been the grandson of a London alderman who helped found the Muscovy Company, which is a trading company. Hudson took four voyages beginning in 1607 and continued to1611, making claims for the English and the Dutch. At one point, he was arrested for working with the Dutch, because in those days working for another country was considered treason. Hudson was also known as the grandfather of the English whaling…show more content…
They put Henry Hudson, his son, and others they didn't like onto a small raft, then set them adrift, never to be seen again.
Henry Hudson made several important discoveries. He founded the Hudson Bay and Hudson River. He found the land that later became New York. He also helped to prove that the sun does not melt the ice at the North Pole and that there is no passage through the Northeast to the Pacific. The countries that sponsored him benefited though his discoveries. The area, today called New York, was settled and colonized by the Dutch. As well as, the English whaling industry, which benefited for his discovery of the whale, pods a Spitzbergen Islands.