Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter journals, 1679-1683.

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Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter journals, 1679-1683.

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Journals for two trips, 1679-1681, 1683, made by Dankers (or Dankaerts) and Sluyter (1645-1722), to New Netherland and other American colonies. Members of Labadist sect, they traveled under the names of J. Schildres and P. Vorstman, looking for land to set up a colony. Account of the first trip was translated by Henry C. Murphy as "Journal of a Voyage to New York and Several of the American Colonies," published in LONG ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMOIRS, v. 1, 1867.

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Dankers, Jasper.

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Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluyter (d. 1722) toured New Netherland as missionaries for the Labadist sect of the Dutch Reformed Church. From the description of Sketches and maps, 1679-1681. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155449685 ...

Murphy, Henry Cruse, 1810-1882

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Henry Cruse Murphy, a New York lawyer and politician; admitted to the bar 1833, prosecuting attorney for King's County, N.Y., owner and editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, mayor of Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1842-43, elected to serve in the U.S. House of Rep. 1843-1845 and 1847-1849, minister in resident to the Netherlands 1857-1861, state senator 1861-1873. From the description of Short Description of the Discovery and of the more particular fortunes of new Netherland formerly a plantation o...

Vorstman, P.H.

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Schilders, Jeske

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Reformed Church in America. Labadist sect.

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Sluyter, Peter, 1645-1722

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