Thanks to the #Mondriaanfonds for their proven talent grant.

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My project #theleftoversofnewnetherland - Still looking for descendents of the area called New Netherland!

Teresa Vega descendant of enslaved people (2019). The first enslaved people landed in New Amsterdam on Aug. 29, 1627.

*Still looking for descendents of the area called New Netherland!

In 1609 Henry Hudson mapped (by order of the Dutch) for the first time the Delaware bay and called it the “Zuidrivier’
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Deborah Barber #genealogist and #descendant of the 1st Christian girl #Sarahrapalje born in #newnetherland. Historians estimate that today there are one million descendants of her parents Catalina and Joris roaming the world

Thanks to #Mondriaanfonds

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Near Philadelphia on the other side of the Delaware River the Dutch took over Fort Nassau from Sweden. From 1651 - ‘54 they traded fur with the Susquehannock.

Thanks to the Mondriaan Fonds for their proven talent grant.

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