FW: James 2
Sherwood, Harrison
hsherwood at btg.com
Thu Sep 11 10:53:51 CDT 1997
>Arrrrgh.
>
>I'm really starting to detest the Microsoft Exchange client for the Mac.
>
>Let's try that Dutch history thing again, shall we?
>
>II. Dutch culture 1609-1664
>
>[snip]
>
>New Netherland Co. 1614
> f. Fort Nassau trade post
> Treaty with Iroquois
>Dutch West India Co. 1621
> Fort Nassau (Fort Orange)
> 30 Walloon families 1624
> Verhulst buys 22000 acres for $24
>New Sweden Co. joins Dutch Co.
> Minuit builds Fort Christina 1638
> Johan Printz challenges Dutch 1643
>
>[snip]
>
>Peter Stuyvesant 1647-64
> law and order, regulated society
> Court of Justice, Dutch Reformed Church
> Broadway, Wall St.
> "half-freedom" for slaves
> tavern laws, Rattle Watch
> defeats Prinz, builds Fort Casimir
>Anglo-Dutch Wars over trade
> 1654 fleet seizes Jamaica
> 1664 grants by Charles II
> New Jersey to Berkeley, Carteret
> New York to brother James
>Richard Nicolls seizes New Amsterdam
>
>Harrison
>
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