1title: Brief and Concise Plan Intended to be a Mutual Agreement for Some Colonists Willing to go to the South River in New Netherland
artist: Plockhoy, Pieter Corneliszoon (1625-1694?)
date: 1662
medium: ru 1=Книги fr 1=Livres en 1=Books zh 1=图书 pt 1=Livros ar 1=كتب es 1=Libros
dimensions: en 1=Pamphlet, printed paper, 14 x 18 centimeters
current location: ru|1=Национальная библиотека Нидерландов fr|1=Bibliothèque nationale des Pays-Bas en|1=National Library of the Netherlands zh|1=荷兰国家图书馆 pt|1=Biblioteca Nacional dos Países Baixos ar|1=المكتبة الوطنية لهولندا es|1=Biblioteca Nacional de los Países Bajos
description: Pieter cornelis Plockhoy was a Dutch Mennonite and social reformer, born in the city of Zierikzee circa 1625. He moved to Amsterdam in 1648, where he became well known in the city’s intellectual circles. In 1658 he went to London where he tried unsuccessfully to gain the support of Oliver Cromwell, the antiroyalist Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, for the establishment of utopian settlements in England. Plockhoy returned to Netherlands in 1661 and in 1662 concluded a contract with the Amsterdam magistrates for the establishment of a settlement on the South (Delaware) River in the colony of New Netherland. In exchange for financial support, Plockhoy was required to recruit 25 settlers. He hoped to establish a community of at least one hundred adults; and this pamphlet, with its glowing descriptions of the colony and its abundant natural wealth, was intended to attract emigrants. On July 28, 1663, Plockhoy and forty other Dutch Mennonites disembarked at Hoerenkil (also known as Zwaanendael, Dutch for "valley of swans"), near present-day Lewes, Delaware, to establish the colony. Thirteen months later, the Dutch lost New Netherland to the British, and British soldiers under the command of Sir Robert Carr "destroyed the quaking society of Plockhoy to a naile," as one eyewitness put it. Plockhoy survived the raid and died in Philadelphia some thirty years later.
Colonial America; Colonists; Delaware River (New York-Delaware and New Jersey); Emigration and immigration; Netherlands--Colonies; New Netherlandlicense:Public domain
2title: Short Story about New Netherland [...] and Special Possibilities to Populate
artist: Enden, Franciscus van den (1602-1674)
date: 1662
medium: ru 1=Книги fr 1=Livres en 1=Books zh 1=图书 pt 1=Livros ar 1=كتب es 1=Libros
dimensions: en 1=Printed paper, 20 x 16 centimeters
current location: ru|1=Национальная библиотека Нидерландов fr|1=Bibliothèque nationale des Pays-Bas en|1=National Library of the Netherlands zh|1=荷兰国家图书馆 pt|1=Biblioteca Nacional dos Países Baixos ar|1=المكتبة الوطنية لهولندا es|1=Biblioteca Nacional de los Países Bajos
description: This pamphlet, published anonymously in Amsterdam in October 1662, concerns the establishment of a settlement on the South River (as the Dutch called the Delaware River) in New Netherland by the Dutch Mennonite and social reformer Pieter cornelis Plockhoy. The pamphlet consisted of proposals sent to the magistrates of the city of Amsterdam to gain their support for the settlement, which Plockhoy intended to be for poor and needy families and based on reformist principles. The pamphlet was partly intended to reassure investors that the settlement would also be a profitable enterprise. A number of scholars have argued that the pamphlet was written by Franciscus van den Enden (1602–74), a scholar, teacher of Latin, and dealer in art who is best known as the teacher of the philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632–77). Born in Antwerp, van den Enden moved to Amsterdam in the 1640s, where he became acquainted with Plockhoy, with whom he shared an interest in social reform and the establishment of an ideal society.
Colonial America; Delaware River (New York-Delaware and New Jersey); Land settlement; Netherlands--Colonies; New Netherlandlicense:Public domain
3title: Atlas Schoemaker WESTFRIESLAND-DEEL2-350-Noord-Holland, Egmond aan Zee.
artist: Andries Schoemaker
date: between 1710 and 1735
current location: Institution:Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, Amsterdam
source: Source page at the [link Geheugen van Nederland / Memory of the Netherlands] website Koninklijk_Oudheidkundig_Genootschap,_Amsterdam
credit: This is an image from the collections of the Koninklijk Oudheidkundig Genootschap, the Royal Dutch Antiquarian Society in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
license:Public domain
4title: Map Special Collections University of Amsterdam - OTM- HB-KZL 34.10.06
artist: unknown
date: [after 1704]
medium: w Intaglio (printmaking) Copperplate print
dimensions: size cm height=47.5 width=57
current location: Institution:Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam
source: [link Catalogue Library of the University of Amsterdam]
credit: Catalogue Library of the University of Amsterdam
license:Public domain
title: HUA-30886-Gezicht vanaf de singel over de stadsbuitengracht op de stadswal te Utrecht uit het noordoosten met links de toren de Vos daken van de huizen achter d
artist:
Hardenbergh, C. van, tekenaar/ graficusdate: between 1 January 1820 and 31 December 1830
medium: nl 1=tekening, penseel in kleur (waterverf), potlood
dimensions: size unit=cm height=262 width=360
current location: Institution:Het Utrechts Archief
source: link
credit: link
license:Public domain
