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2 unusual facts about David Pietersz. de Vries


David Pietersz. de Vries

On top of the The Zwaanendael Museum in Lewes, Delaware, designed after the City Hall of Hoorn, stands a statue of De Vries.

De Vries Palisade

It is the site of the first permanent European presence on the Delaware Bay in 1631, by a group of settlers under David Pietersz. de Vries.



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Map of Rensselaerswyck

Philips Jansz van Haerlem is mentioned by David Pietersz de Vries, in his Korte Historiael, as a young man whom he engaged in June 1635 to pilot his vessel from Sandy Hook to New Amsterdam and who formerly had been in his service in the East Indies.