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2 unusual facts about Holland Land Company


Holland Land Company

In November, 1800, Paolo Busti (Paul Busti) succeeded Cazenove as General Agent.

David A. Ogden and his brother Thomas Ludlow Ogden were legal advisors to the company.


Busti, New York

The town is named after Paul Busti, an official of the Holland Land Company, but its pronunciation uses a long i sound at the end, a frequent alteration in the names of several upstate New York towns.

New York State Route 18

On the eastern edge of town, the route intersects Transit Road, which runs along the transit line first surveyed by the Holland Land Company.

Nicolaas van Staphorst

The Van Staphorst brothers, along with Wilhelm Willink and Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, were in 1789 shareholders in the Holland Land Company, a society that invested in the north of the state of New York, not far from Ontario, Pennsylvania and some canals: the Patowmack Canal, James River and Kanawha Canal and Santee Canal.


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Batavia Township, Boone County, Arkansas

Batavia, Arkansas was settled in 1881 by Roswell Emerson Underwood, who spent four years as a Genesee County, New York, surveyor for the Holland Land Company.

Cazenove

Theophilus Cazenove, financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company

Gerrit Boon

His assistant Adam Gerard Mappa took over as the agent of the Holland Land Company and lived in his house until 1809, today called Mappa Hall in Barneveld, New York.