Excerpt from The De Forests and the Walloon Founding of New Amsterdam With the steady growth in the past twenty years Of general interest in matters of history and biogra phy, further research among early records Of state in Holland, England, and the American Colonies has brought within reach Of the general public a number Of documents relating to the very earliest settlements in the New Netherland. By these later investiga tions it now appears clearly established that, while the Dutch were first in the field as explorers and traders, the belgian-french were their predecessors as actual settlers with homes, families, cattle and tilled fields. The first to bring their wives and chil dren, the first to plow and plant, the first to build permanent residences upon the island Of Manhattan and the site Of New York City, were a company of Walloons recruited and enrolled by Jesse De Forest Of Avesnes - not included as a negligible minority in a colony planned by the Dutch Government, but gathered together Of their own motion and wish as a racial and religious unit, seeking from the united Netherlands only permission to make a settlement, and means Of transportation. It is Of this Walloon colony, of its leader, Jesse De Forest, and Of the part it played in the first days of New Amsterdam, that the present paper in a modest way seeks to treat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Green outlines for us the first families who colonized New Amsterdam, the area located on the southern tip of Manhattan Island, nor referred to as New York City. She presents her argument, that, it was not the Dutch who were the first settlers on the Island of Manhattan - it was a group of Belgian-French Protestant refuees by the name of Walloon, under the leadership of Jesse De Forest. They were not part of a colony established and planned by the Dutch Government, but created for themselves their own community, and sought nothing more from the Dutch than transportation to the new land and permission to be left to establish their own community. They arrived at the mouth of the Hudson in 1624, and shortly thereafter the Walloon family formed the first permanent colony."--Back cover.

The essays in this book offer a rich sampling of current scholarship on New Netherland and Dutch colonization in North America. The Introduction explains why the Dutch moment in American history has been overlooked or trivialized and calls attention to signs of the emergence of a new narrative of American beginnings that gives due weight to the imprint of Dutch settlement in America. The essays are organized around six major themes: New Netherland and Historical Memory, New Netherland in the Atlantic World, The Political Economy of New Netherland, New Netherland’s Directors: A New Look, Family Research as a key to New Netherland’s History, and Writing the History of New Netherland in the Twenty-first Century. This volume holds great interest for historians of early America and of Dutch colonization. Contributors include: Willem Frijhoff, Charles Th. Gehring, Joyce D. Goodfriend, Firth Haring Fabend, Jaap Jacobs, Wim Klooster, Harry Macy, Jr., Dennis J. Maika, Simon Middleton, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Annette Stott, David William Voorhees, and Richard Waldron.

The Huguenots are among the best known of early modern European religious minorities. Their suffering in 16th and 17th-century France is a familiar story. The flight of many Huguenots from the kingdom after 1685 conferred upon them a preeminent place in the accounts of forced religious migrations. Their history has become synonymous with repression and intolerance. At the same time, Huguenot accomplishments in France and the lands to which they fled have long been celebrated. They are distinguished by their theological formulations, political thought, and artistic achievements. This volume offers an encompassing portrait of the Huguenot past, investigates the principal lines of historical development, and suggests the interpretative frameworks that scholars have advanced for appreciating the Huguenot experience.

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