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(0)Ralph Blauvelt
Author
Publisher
[Self-published]
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Four Hundred Years in America is the story of the first immigrant settlers in New Netherland, the seventeenth century Dutch colony in North America. It is the story of strangers in a strange land, individuals and families who struggled to make a clearing in the wilderness to build a home and make a life. They were the founders of the New York metropolis and the ancestors of millions of Americans. The author reconstructs the lives of selected ancestors...
Author
Publisher
[Self-published]
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"'Bluefields,' the story of Captain Willem Albertsen Blauvelt, is a documentary biography with a summary account of the world he lived in. It is about a seventeenth century adventurer, a Dutchman who sailed a French ship and was listed among the English buccaneers, who called him Blewfield or Bluefield. He lived most of his life in the West Indies, where his name, “Bluefields,” identifies geographic localities in both Nicaragua and Jamaica. However,...