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unusual facts about Dutch colony



Felipe Enrique Neri, Baron de Bastrop

Felipe Enrique Neri (born Nov. 23, 1759 in Paramaribo, Surinam & died 23 Feb. 1827) was a Dutch businessman and land owner known for his assistance in Anglo-American settlement of Texas.

Pisang Ambon

Pisang means banana in Malay/Indonesian and Ambon is the name of an Indonesian island which was once a Dutch colony.


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Arawak peoples

By 1739, Moravian Brethren missionaries arrived in Fort Nassau on the Berbice River in Guyana, then a Dutch colony, where they founded Pilgerhut (Pilgrims' Watch) as a mission.

Gustaaf Willem van Imhoff

En route to Batavia, Van Imhoff visited the Dutch colony in Cape Town, in the Cape Colony, where he discovered that Dutch settlers were penetrating increasingly further into the interior, and were losing contact with the VOC.

Henry Y. Satterlee

He was also a descendant of Jellis Douwese Fonda, who emigrated in 1642 to the Dutch colony of New Netherland (New York).