1650 Criticisms of New Netherland, Illuminated Colonial Challenges, Essential, Interconnected.
“Hollanders are not a nation to rob another of its property, but desire to live in friendship with all people, and trade with them.”
~ Jan van Riebeeck, Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope (c. January 1656 - December 1658), as quoted in Riebeeck's Journal (1897), by H. C. V. Leibrandt, Cape Town, p. 67
Here is an Excellent Supplement by F. R. E. Blom titled ‘Neighbours in America. New Sweden and New Netherland.’ It gives much-needed details about not just the New Netherland settlement but also the New Sweden settlement.
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