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	Willem Verhulst
		Willem Verhulst became the second director of the New Netherland colony early in 1625.
		Verhulst had specific instructions from the directors of the Dutch West India Company [DWI] to move the settlers, who had landed the previous year on what is now Governor’s Island, to the much larger island of Manhattan.
		Verhulst apparently was able to occupy the southern tip of Manhattan, even before the purchase was made.
	www.nnp.org /nni/Publications/Dutch-American/verhulst.html (537 words)

	Willem Verhulst - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Willem Verhulst was the second director of the Dutch West India Company.
		In 1625, Verhulst oversaw the decision to locate the company's main fortress and town on the tip of Manhattan Island in the colony of New Netherland.
		Verhulst was replaced as director in 1626 by Peter Minuit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Willem_Verhulst (97 words)

	Genealogy VERHULST - pafg10.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Hendrika Josepha Verhulst (Antonie, Hendrik, Antonie or Anthonius, Hendricus or Hendrik, Anthonius of Antonie, Henricus, Peeter or Petrus Sijmons, Sijmon) was born 12 Oct 1899 in Oosterhout.
		Wouter Antonius Verhulst (Willem, Hendrik, Antonie or Anthonius, Hendricus or Hendrik, Anthonius of Antonie, Henricus, Peeter or Petrus Sijmons, Sijmon) was born 23 Jul 1921 in Oosterhout.
		Cornelia Adriana Geertruida Antonia Verhulst (Franciscus, Franciscus, Antonie or Anthonius, Hendricus or Hendrik, Anthonius of Antonie, Henricus, Peeter or Petrus Sijmons, Sijmon) was born 25 Jan 1907 in Oosterhout.
	www.traveljunkies.nl /genealogie/pafg10.htm (893 words)

	Willem Kieft Information
		For the Dutch footballer named Willem (Wim) Kieft, see Wim Kieft
		Willem Kieft (1597-1647) was a Dutch merchant and director-general of New Netherland (of which New Amsterdam, later New York City, was the primary settlement), from 1638 until 1647.
		He formed the council of twelve men, the first representative body in New Netherland, but ignored its advice, beginning what would become known as Kieft's War with the Native Americans.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Willem_Kieft (100 words)

	New Amsterdam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		For the location of the masonry fort, company director Willem Verhulst and engineer Cryn Fredericks chose a site just above the southern tip of Manhattan.
		Verhulst was an unpopular director, however, mainly because of his mismanagement of the colony's finances and his poor treatment of the settlers, whom he viewed simply as company employees.
		In early 1626, Verhulst was replaced by Peter Minuit.
	uncover.us /en/wikipedia/n/ne/new_amsterdam.html (1058 words)

	NEW AMSTERDAM ALTERNATE GENIE SEARCH ENGINE, INC
		The potential threat of attack from other interloping European colonial powers prompted the Directors of the Dutch_West_India_Company to formulate a plan to protect the entrance to the Hudson_River, and to consolidate the trading operations and the bulk of the settlers into the vicinity of a new fort.
		There is evidence that the Dutch West India Company was interested in building such a fort as early as 1620, based on a letter dated that year from the English architect Inigo_Jones, who had probably been contacted by the company to design the fort.
		Verhulst was an unpopular director, however, mainly because of his mismanagement of the colony's finances and his peremptory treatment of the settlers, whom he viewed simply as company employees.
	www.agseinc.com /New_Amsterdam (1351 words)

	hist0506
		In January 1625 the ship Orange Tree left Amsterdam for New Netherlands with William Verhulst, who was to become the second governor of the colony and Peter Minuit, who was to succeed him.
		Verhulst had instructions from the merchant group known as the West India Company, who were financing the building of the colony.
		Verhulst didn't last very long and was sent home in disgrace on the Arms of Amsterdam on 23 September 1626.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist0506.html (1455 words)

	Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ferdinand Verhulst was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on September 3, 1939, three months after his father died and a few hours after World War II started.
		In 1625, ancestor Willem Verhulst, established and directed a settlement on the island Manhattan.
		His directorship was not very successful and the Verhulst family has little control over the island nowadays.
	www.math.uu.nl /people/verhulst/biography.html (607 words)

	New Amsterdam Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The potential threat of attack from other interloping European colonial powers prompted the Directors of the Dutch West India Company to formulate a plan to protect the entrance to the Hudson River, and to consolidate the trading operations and the bulk of the settlers into the vicinity of a new fort.
		In 1625, most of the cattle and some settlers were moved from Noten Eylant Governors Island to Manhattan Island where Fort Amsterdam was being laid out by Kryn Frederickz van Lobbrecht at the direction of Willem Verhulst who had been empowered to make that decision in his and his council's best judgment.
		Jones' accompanying drawing illustrates the traditional star-design that had become prevalent because of its ability to deflect cannon fire.
	popularityguide.com /encyclopedia/New_Amsterdam (1685 words)

	NYNY 1620-1629
		A second Dutch West India Company ship arrives, carrying over a hundred settlers and 103 head of livestock, as well as Willem Verhulst, who is to replace Cornelis Jacobsz as director of New Amsterdam.
		Willem Verhulst and his wife return to the Netherlands aboard the ship The Arms of Amsterdam.
		Minuit is appointed by a council of Dutch West India Company directors as first director-general of New Netherlands, replacing company agent Willem Verhulst, who had been accused of mismanagement.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/NYNY1620.html (1170 words)

	WILLEM VERHULST - Whistler Art Galleries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem Verhulst was born in the Netherlands in 1948 and emigrated to Canada in 1954.
		Verhulst¹s paintings hang in numerous private, corporate and public collections in Canada, the U.S.A., Europe and Japan.
		Please email the gallery to view more works by WILLEM VERHULST.
	www.whistlerart.com /dynamic/artists/WILLEM_VERHULST.asp (157 words)

	Willem Jacob Luyten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Willem V of Orange : Willem V of Orange
		Willem Van de Velde, the elder : Willem Van de Velde, the elder
		Willem Van de Velde, the younger : Willem Van de Velde, the younger
	www.askmore.net /w/en/190230.htm (73 words)

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		Verhulst had been caught diverting company goods to his own use and the colony elected in his stead his assistant, a brawny, brainy fellow named Peter Minuit Elected, he departed for Holland, won appointment by the Dutch West India Company as Director-General and returned to Manhattan with instructions to purchase Mahha-hattin from the Indians.
		He was of a quarrelsome disposition, and plunged the colony into a war with the Indians, in the course of which the little settlement was almost entirely destroyed.
		He later sold the farm to Willem Beeckman and it later was selected for the village of Harlem.
	members.aol.com /nychistory/rfe2.html (20711 words)

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		There was Willem Usselinx, from Antwerp who lived in Spain and on the Azores in those days known as the "Flemish Islands".
		The act of establishing the settlement there was entrusted to Willem Verhulst.
		Verhulst was merely the agent of the Company, the executor of the Directors' wishes; he had no further significance.
	www.bklyn-genealogy-info.com /Ethnic/Hollanders.html (4918 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Essays: The United States of America and the Netherlands: Nieuw Amsterdam (4/14)
		It was the first Dutch emigrant ship, and these were the first Dutch immigrants to North America.
		Willem Verhulst was the name of the man who directed this venture.
		The Nieuw Nederland anchored near Fort Nassau in the Hudson, at a place called Maeykans, which means `Home of the Mohicans.' The same year, 1624, another fortress, Fort Orange, was built on the shore not far from there.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/E/newnetherlands/nl3.htm (908 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Keyser, de: (4) Willem de Keyser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The celebrated sculptor Rombout Verhulst also worked on this monument, which was designed by Jacob van Campen.
		He also worked with Verhulst on the simpler monument to Commander Jan van Galen, which was constructed in 1654 in the Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam, to a design by Artus Quellinus (i).
		In 1658 he was declared bankrupt, and in the same year he moved to England for the second time and probably worked in London.
	www.artnet.com /library/04/0463/T046393.asp (307 words)

	Memory of the Netherlands - Background
		Governor Willem Verhulst was told in his instructions that he must be ‘honest, trustworthy and fair-minded’ in his dealings with the Indians.
		The later sale of the island of Manhattan was also concluded in conformity with the instructions ‘that such transactions must satisfy the local Indians’.
		Governor Willem Kieft (1597-1647) tried to impose taxes on the Indians, which led to an outbreak of hostilities that later became known as ‘the Kieft War’.
	www.kb.nl /coop/geheugen/extra/tentoonstellingen/atlanticworldEN/tentoon2.html (742 words)

	LAND VALUES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As of June 30, 1966, the world's largest land owner was the United States Government, with a holding of 765,291,000 acres (1,185,787 square miles) including 529,000 acres outside of the United States.
		When Willem Verhulst bought Manhattan Island, New York, before June, 1626, by paying the Brooklyn Indians (Canarsees) with trinkets and cloth valued at 60 guilders (equivalent to $39), he was buying land now worth up to $425 per square foot for 0.2 of a cent per acre - a capital appreciation of 9,000,000,000-fold.
		The greatest land auction ever was that on September 11, 1969, for 179 tracts of 450,858 acres of North Slope, Alaska.
	www.ncrec.state.nc.us /bulletin/vol6-4bulletin/land_values.htm (178 words)

	Johannes Verhulst - Classical Composers Database (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The German conductor Kurt Masur already compared the piece with Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, composed for Coventry Cathedral in England, which was bombed by the Germans in the same war.
		Dutch composer and jazz musician Willem Breuker has received an "Ehrenurkunde" in Berlin, connected with the "Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik".
		He received that price because, as a composer, record producer, and clarinet and saxophone player, he has contributed to the development of improvised music in Europe.
	www.classical-composers.org /cgi-bin/ccd.cgi?comp=verhulst (394 words)

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		Ask the students to descrive in bried phrases what major things Verhulst was instructed to do.
		Reproduce and distribute the Instructions to Willem Verhulst, Director (i.e., governor) of New Netherland, dated 1625, provided below.
		Explain that these were the instructions sent by the Dutch West India Company to the governor of the newly established colony of New Netherland, the year after they established a fur trading post on Burlington Island, the first European settlement in what was to become New Jersey.
	www.newjerseyhistory.org /material_t.html (3876 words)

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