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To: Elsie

a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virginia,
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

so when they landed elsewhere, Jesse de Forest, the French Calvinist, living in Leyden (Amsterdam) in 1621, petitioned the English Ambassador to The Netherlands for permission to take a group of French and Dutch Wallons/Huguenots to Virginia...

56 Walloons signed the “Round Robin” to go with him..

When that didnt work out, the Dutch allowed them to go to what would become NYC...

In 1623 they set out with at least 2 ships, the Nieuw Nederlandt which went to “New Netherland” with 30 families and the Pigeon which went to Dutch Guania in South America to drop of some families there..

The English raced them across but the Nieuw Nederlandt arrived in NYC first...

Jesse de Forest died in South America and never made it to NYC although he is credited with bringing the first European settlers...men, wonen and children to NYC...

BTW in 1850 the Canterbury Compact for 16 ships sent by the Church of England to New Zealand was based loosely on the Mayflower Compact but with a warning not to end up as they did.

When the First Four Ships (the Summer Ships) arrived in Lyttleton harbour in December 1850, there were already houses, stores, wharves, and some streets laid out for them...

The church had sent carpenters and engineers on ahead to build a town...

It worked...

The first major city, Christchurch, was a success from the start...

Even if my “labourer” family did have to live in a tent in Hagley Park for the first few weeks...

They too succeeded with the first hotel and ferry on the Rakaia River...


104 posted on 07/06/2012 4:37:41 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana (Why should I vote for Bishop Romney when he hates me because I am a Christian)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Interesting how you tie all that Huguenaut data you’ve been collect together with the History of New Zealand. As a Kiwi, you were probably taught more History og your country than American kids get on American History nowadays.


105 posted on 07/06/2012 7:00:27 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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