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	New Sweden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The expediton was organized and overseen by Admiral Klaus Fleming, a Finn.
		A Dutchman Samuel Blommaert assisted the fitting-out and appointed Peter Minuit to lead the expedition.
		The members of the expedition, traveling aboard the ships Fogel Grip and Kalmar Nyckel, arrived in Delaware Bay, a location within the territory claimed by the Dutch, sailing past Cape May and Cape Henlopen in late March 1638, and anchored at a rocky point on the Minquas Kill that is known today as Swedes' Landing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Sweden (917 words)

	New Netherland in 1627. Letter from Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert, found in the Royal library at the Hague, ...
		Letter from Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert, found in the Royal library at the Hague, and transmitted by Dr. M.F.A.G. Campbell to the N.Y. Historical Society.: a machine-readable transcription.
		Blommaert, was a member of the West India Company for Amsterdam; and from the whole, I judge de Easieres was an inferior officer of that same company, sent over in " het wapen van Amsterdam" in order to keep his chiefs well informed of the real state of the colony.
		Samuel Blommaert, one of the leading Directors of the West India Company, to whom, as a mark of his gratitude, he addressed his interesting letter.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /service/gc/gckb/025/025.sgm (3742 words)

	History
		The agents purchased, from the Indians, a tract "32 miles long, two miles deep extending from Old Cape Henlopen northward to the mouth of a river." The patent for this land was registered and confirmed on June 1, 1630.
		Blommaert and Godwyn appoint David Pietersen De Vries to lead colonization and development of their land.
		In December 1630, his ship De Walvis (The Whale), under the command of Peter Heyes of Edam, sets sail from Texel, Holland, with immigrants, food, cattle and whaling implements (de Vries was told that whales abound in the bay).
	www.delawareliving.com /history.html (1641 words)

	Samuel Blommaert -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Samuel Blommaert was an (An industrial center and the nominal capital of the Netherlands; center of the diamond-cutting industry; seat of an important stock exchange; known for its canals and art museum) Amsterdam merchant of the (Click link for more info and facts about 17th century) 17th century.
		He was a director of the (Click link for more info and facts about Dutch West India Company) Dutch West India Company.
		Blommaert's letters to the Swedish chancellor, Count (Click link for more info and facts about Axel Oxenstierna) Axel Oxenstierna, from 1635-1641 and thirty-eight in number, are of great importance to the history
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sa/samuel_blommaert.htm (195 words)

	NEW JERSEY - LoveToKnow Article on NEW JERSEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1631 Samuel Godyn and Samuel Blommaert secured a patent from Peter Minuit, the director of New Netherland, authorizing them to plant a settlement near Cape May, but the effort was soon abandoned.
		Thi As early as 1613, Captain Samuel Argall, on his way to Virginia after breaking up some Jesuit settlements at Port Royal, and Moun Desert, passed through the Narrows near the mouth of the Hudsor and finding a group of Dutch traders, made them haul down thei flag and replace it with that of England.
		Although he was one of the signers of the Concessions and Agreements Byllynge now commissioned Samuel Jennings as governor of the province, and the other proprietors acquiesced, appointing Byllynge governor and permitting Jennings to serve as his deputy.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /N/NE/NEW_JERSEY.htm (14609 words)

	Delaware Chapter V
		One of the first of Blommaert’s letters made inquiry as to the prospects of a Swedish expedition to Guinea, to which country and Brazil the attention of the Dutchman seems then to have been principally devoted, and subsequent letters dealt largely with a description of the commercial and maritime enterprises of Holland.
		Minuit, whom it will be borne in mind, was Director of the Council, or President of the Board of the Holland West India Company, and Governor of Netherlands, resident on the Island of Manhattan, from May 4, 1626 to 1632, was a native of Wesel, in the war-torn Cleves in the Rhine provinces of Germany.
		Samuel Blommaert, who was associated with Minuit and Usselinx in their scheme to colonize Delaware, was a merchant of Amsterdam, distinguished himself in 1607—9 in the service of the Dutch East India Company, and was now (1636) a partner in the Dutch West India Company.
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/de/delaware/Delaware5.htm (13311 words)

	Samuel Blommaert
		BLOMMAERT, Samuel, colonial patron, born about 1590; died about 1670.
		He was one of the directors of the Amsterdam chamber, and, in company with Samuel Godyn, a fellow-director, bargained with the natives for a tract of land reaching from Cape Henlopen to the mouth of Delaware river.
		This was in 1629, three years before the charter of Maryland, and is the oldest deed for land in Delaware.
	www.famousamericans.net /samuelblommaert (544 words)

	SAMUEL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	Delaware Chapter IV
		Soon after the colonists were comfortably settled at Zwaannendael, Heyes crossed to Cape May and bought from ten chiefs on behalf of Godyn, Blommaert and their associates a tract of land twelve miles square which purchase was registered at Manhattan June 3, 1631.
		Godyn and Blommaert, in their stead, state, zeal, and actual possession thereof; and giving them at the same time, full and irrevocable authority, power, and special command to hold in quiet possession, occupancy and use, tanquam Actores et Procuratores in rem propriam the aforesaid land, acquired by the above mentioned Messrs.
		Godyn and Blommaert, or those who may hereafter obtain their interest; also, to so barter and dispose thereof, as they may do with their own well and lawfully acquired lands.".
	www.accessible.com /amcnty/de/delaware/delaware4.htm (6773 words)

	Descriptions of the Fortified Town of Plymouth
		This was accomplished very cheerfully, and the town impaled round by the beginning of March, in which every family had a pretty garden plot secured.
		William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, Samuel Eliot Morison, (Ed.), (New York: Knopf, 1952), p.
		A fourth description of Plymouth in its early years comes to us from a letter written by Isaack de Rasieres, chief Trading Agent for the Dutch West India Company as well as Secretary to the Director-General of New Netherland, who visited Plymouth in 1627.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /users/deetz/Plymouth/fortdesc.html (2717 words)

	William Bradford in Records
		Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p.
		In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth.
		Isaack de Rasieres, a visitor to Plymouth, wrote to Samuel Blommaert in 1628 describing Plymouth and the role of the governor :
	www.pilgrimhall.org /bradfordwilliamrecords.htm (4162 words)

	GET NJ - Historic Roadsides - CAPE MAY COUNTY
		On May 5, 1630, Samuel Godyn and Samuel Blommaert, exploring for the Dutch West India Company, purchased of the Indians a tract of land extending four miles along the Bay from Cape May Point northward and four miles inland.
		Their descendants, together with those of Joseph Whillden, Thomas Leaming, Humphrey Hughes, Cornelius Schellinger, Samuel Crowell, Thomas Hand, and Ezekial Eldridge, are still to be found in the County.
		At Cold Spring was erected, in 1699, the earliest water mill in the County.
	www.getnj.com /historicroadsides/capemay.shtml (1755 words)

	Plymouth Town, Early Descriptions, 1620-1628
		The original letter written by de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert was in Dutch and was written after de Rasieres returned to Holland.
		He had visited Plymouth in October 1627, but his letter is undated, and has some missing pages.
		Jameson does not provide any details as to the source from which he obtained this measurement.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /users/deetz/Plymouth/towndesc.html (2865 words)

	New Sweden and the New World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		"Patroonships," land grants of sixteen miles of riverfront, were offered to anyone establishing fifty settlers within four years, Samuel Blommaert and Samuel Godyn became the first European landowners in the lower Delaware Bay, in 1629.
		Captain David Pieter de Vries agreed to send settlers, who reached Lewes Creek in spring 1631, founding Swanendael, the "Valley of Swans." However, when deVries himself arrived in December 1632, he found that the Dutch settlers had been massacred by Native Americans.
		The New Sweden Company was created to inhabit Blommaert's former patroonship and develop the fur trade.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/morton/page1.asp?secid=31 (449 words)

	SOURCES 2
		Champlain, Samuel D., Voyages of Samuel de Champlain 1604-1618.
		Maverick, Samuel, A Brief Description of New England and the Severall Towns Therein, together with the present government thereof.
		Morison, Samuel Eliot, Builders of the Bay Colony.
	ancientgreece-earlyamerica.com /html/sources_2.html (6181 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: American Independence
		By resident of Amsterdam named Nicolaes Van Wassenaer on the formation of the Dutch West India Company and its colonizing efforts in New Netherland.
		Excerpts from a Letter to Samuel Blommaert, c.1628 [At Brooklyn/Burrows]
		Samuel Adams: The Rights of the Colonists, 1772 [At Hanover]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook12.html (1570 words)

	Narratives Of New Netherland, 1609-1664 by Editor Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin) eBook by BookRags
		<4> The reference is to aid rendered by Samuel Blommaert, an Amsterdam merchant, formerly a director of the Dutch West India Company, in fitting out the first Swedish expedition in 1637, and in engaging Peter Minuit to command it.
		Blommaert’s letters to the Swedish chancellor, Count Axel Oxenstjerna, thirty-eight in number, 1635-1641, letters of great importance to the history of New Sweden, have just been published in the Bijdragen en Mededeelingen of the Utrecht Historical Society, vol.
		See in the work of the Sieur de Laet of Antwerp, the table and chapter on New Belgium, as he sometimes calls it, or the map “Nova Anglia, Novu Belgium et Virginia."<1>
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/3161/15.html (415 words)

	LEWES - Encyclopedia Britannica - LEWES - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Lewes has a large trade with northern cities in fruits and vegetables, and is a subport of entry of the Wilmington Customs
		on Delaware soil by Europeans was made near here in 1631 by Dutch colonists, sent by a company organized in Holland in the previous year by Samuel Blommaert, Killian van Rensselaer, David Pieterszen de Vries and others.
		The settlers called the place Zwaanendael, valley of swans.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/LEO_LOB/LEWES.html (486 words)

	Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Scientific, Political & Industrial Revolution
		Samuel Pufendorf: History of the Principal Kingdoms, 1700
		Samuel de Champlain: The Foundation of Quebec, 1608 [At this Site]
		Samuel Green, ed.: Groton in Witchcraft Times, c.1671 [At Hanover]
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/mod/modsbook2.html (5133 words)

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