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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