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    Samuel Blommaert (Bloemaert, Blommaerts, Blommaart, Blomert, etc.) (11 or 21 August 1583, in Antwerp – 23 December 1651, in Amsterdam) was a Flemish/Dutch...
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  • Flemish linguist Philip Blommaert (1809–1871), Flemish writer Samuel Blommaert (1583–1651), Dutch merchant Susan Blommaert, American actress This page...
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    (Duchy of Cleves) for several years, Minuit made arrangements with Samuel Blommaert and the Swedish government in 1637 to create the first Swedish colony...
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    failed to find a passage. Consequently, in 1615, Isaac Le Maire and Samuel Blommaert, assisted by others, focused on finding a south-westerly route around...
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    Dutch fur-traders it seems Samuel Godin and Killian van Rensselaer decided to look around elsewhere. In 1628 Samuel Blommaert was informed about suitable...
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  • Rensselaerswyck and Lower Manor at Claverack. Zwaanendael (Delaware Bay) – Samuel Blommaert and Samuel Godyn, abandoned after being devastated by indigenous population...
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    a strong focus on culture and art. In 1636–1637, Peter Minuit and Samuel Blommaert negotiated with the government to found New Sweden, the first Swedish...
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    Company that he, in conjunction with fellow Company members Samuel Godyn and Samuel Blommaert, sent Gillis Houset and Jacob Jansz Cuyper to determine satisfactory...
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    stockholders. The directors of the company included Flemish/Dutch merchant Samuel Blommaert. The company sponsored 11 expeditions in 14 separate voyages to Delaware...
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    Rensselaer, Kiliaen; Samuel Godyn, and Samuel Blommaert (1629): Notification by Samuel Godyn, Kiliaen van Rensselaer and Samuel Blommaert that they send two...
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    overseen by Clas Larsson Fleming, a Swedish admiral and administrator. Samuel Blommaert, a Flemish director of the Dutch West India Company who had grown frustrated...
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    an empty plot, now Prinsengracht 2-10; his heirs, two daughters who married Samuel Blommaert and Isaac Coymans, sold the lots in 1617, 1618 and 1622....
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    limited. The settlement sponsored by the patroons of Zwaanendael, Samuel Blommaert and Samuel Godijn was destroyed by the local Indigenous population soon...
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    directors of the Amsterdam chamber of the Dutch West India Company, Samuel Blommaert and Samuel Godyn, bargained with the natives for a tract of land reaching...
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    Kalaka as Calca and Bintulu as River de Berulu. In the 17th century, Samuel Blommaert, a Dutch merchant mentioned that "Sadong were one of the best place...
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    arrival of the first European settlers, organized by the Dutch merchant Samuel Blommaert (1583–1651 or 1654), the area became farmland. In 1930, a 156-acre...
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    hoped to become patroons of the colony: Kiliaen de Rensselaer, Samuel Godijn, Samuel Blommaert, Albert Burgh, Joannes de Laet and De Vries. Upon visiting...
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    cartographer Steven Blankaart (1650–1704), physician and entomologist Samuel Blommaert (1583–1651), merchant, director of the Dutch West India Company Anthonie...
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    pedagogue John Amos Comenius, who had moved in with Louis de Geer 137-139: Samuel Blommaert 139: Hugo Metsers 141: Laurens Reael and Jacques Specx 149: Hans van...
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    notification to the Directors on January 13, 1629, that Samuel Godyn, Kiliaen van Rensselaer, and Samuel Blommaert had sent Gillis Houset and Jacob Jansz Cuyper...
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    of the New Sweden Company. In 1637, Minuit made arrangements with Samuel Blommaert and the Swedish government to create New Sweden, the first Swedish...
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  • Nicolaus Vernulaeus (died 1649), Neo-Latin playwright 11/21 August - Samuel Blommaert (died 1651), director of the Dutch West India Company date unknown...
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    Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and West Virginia. In 1629, Samuel Godin and Samuel Blommaert sent agents of the Dutch West India Company to negotiate with...
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  • South Company in 1636 or 1637. The first expedition was prepared by Samuel Blommaert in secrecy in fear of the Dutch West India Company which at that time...
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    1615 Gerrit Reynst became the owner of an empty lot, now Prinsengracht 2; his heirs Samuel Blommaert and his wife Catharina Reynst sold the lot in 1617....
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    India Company (WIC), Peter Minuit was recruited by Willem Usselincx, Samuel Blommaert and the Swedish government to create the first Swedish colony in the...
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  • 1668, a Dutch writer named O. Dapper, drawing from the records of Samuel Blommaert, described a people called the Kalbongos at the Rio del Rey: "The people...
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  • expedition was organized and overseen by Swedish Admiral Clas Fleming. Samuel Blommaert, a Dutch colonial patron, assisted with the fitting-out. Following...
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  • appointed Brant Aertsz van Slichtenhorst as Director of Rensselaerwyck. Samuel Blommaert and Joannes de Laet tried to get more influence in the colony, as both...
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    present site of Douala. Arnout Leers, probably drawing from writings by Samuel Blommaert in the 1630s, is the first writer to mention Monneba: There is little...
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