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Land Speculation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...negotiated a number of large purchases and resold tracts to...of them went to the Holland Land Company. Dutch...capitalists who bought the Holland Reserve in western...them. The largest purchase and the most stupendous...Congress with requests to purchase tracts of land north...from ...
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New Netherland
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...investors principally from the Dutch provinces of Holland, North Holland, and Zeeland. In 1609 Henry Hudson explored the...New Netherland. Any properties acquired would be by purchase or contractual agreement. In 1624 the WIC began its...
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Earliest American Protest Against Slavery (February, 1688, Drawn up by Mennonite Germans)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...steal or rob men, and those who buy or purchase them, are they not all alike? Here...according [to] Christianity? You surpass Holland and Germany in this thing. This makes...lawful to steal must likewise avoid to purchase such things as are stolen, but rather...
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Conyngham, Gustavus
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
...xE6;m (1747–1819) naval officer, born in County Donegal, Ireland. In 1775 Conyngham sailed to Holland to purchase military supplies for the Continental army, but British pressure prevented him from acquiring any cargo. Stranded...
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Hals, Frans
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...the city was captured by the Spaniards in 1585 and moved to Holland. They had settled in Haarlem by 1591 and Hals spent the rest...becoming a model for society portraitists. Lord Hertford's purchase of his most famous work, The Laughing Cavalier (1624, Wallace...
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Bartram, William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...visit Florida, offered him fifty pounds a year, and agreed to purchase any drawings he made. With this assurance William set out...editions appeared in Paris, Dublin, Vienna, Berlin, and Holland. Most reviewers praised Bartram ’ s descriptions...
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Hartlib, Samuel
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...the Office was to act as a commercial agent, not only to purchase books and all kinds of property but also to serve as a channel...he could, corresponding with Pell in Switzerland, Dury in Holland and Germany, Johannes Hevelius in Danzig, John Winthrop and...
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Paykull, Gustaf
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...leopard, camel, zebra — was noteworthy. Some of Paykull ’ s animals were purchase during foreign travels — in Holland and France, for instance. The entire collection was donated in 1819 to the state and became...
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Philip the Good
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...century his territories included Namur (acquired 1421), Holland and Zeeland (1428), Brabant (1430), Luxembourg (1435...were his by inheritance, others had come through marriage, purchase, or conquest and they combined to constitute a formidable...
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Brooklyn
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...were the Dutch, who, through a total of some two hundred purchases, began settling Brooklyn in 1636. The flat, relatively low...population has always been diverse. By the nineteenth century, Holland, Germany, France, and England were all well represented...
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