Cornelis Jacobsen Mey, often spelled Cornelius Jacobsz May in Dutch, was a 17th-century century Dutch explorer, captain, and fur trader. Mey was the first Director of New Netherland and was stationed at Fort Amsterdam. Mey was the captain of the ship Nieu Nederlandt which delivered the first boat load of colonists to New Netherland in north-east America.
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Cornelis Jacobsen Mey, often spelled Cornelius Jacobsz May in Dutch, was a 17th-century century Dutch explorer, captain, and fur trader. Mey was the first...
Adriaen Block, and Cornelis Jacobsen Mey. The recorded history of Cape May stretches back to 1620, when Captain CorneliusJacobsen Mey surveyed and named the...
Governors Island) aboard the ship Nieu Nederlandt under the command of CorneliusJacobsenMay, who disembarked on the island with thirty families to take legal...
Willemsz Cat respectively. Adriaen Block, Hendrick Christiaensen, and CorneliusJacobsen Mey explored, surveyed, and mapped the area between Maryland and Massachusetts...
Portrait Director or Director-General Took office Left office Notes CorneliusJacobsenMay (fl. 1600s) 1624 1625 Explored Delaware Bay, New York Bay, Hudson...
Egg Harbor (and thus the river) got its name from Dutch explorer CorneliusJacobsenMay. In 1614, Mey came upon the inlet to the Great Egg Harbor River...
destroyed by flooding and abandoned for good. In 1624, Captain CorneliusJacobsenMay sailed the Nieuw Nederlandt upriver and landed eighteen families...
as 1691 on the Miller Plan of New York. New York Governor Thomas Dongan may have issued the first official designation of Wall Street in 1686, the same...
Nieuw Dorp The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions CorneliusJacobsenMay (1620–25) Willem Verhulst (1625–26) Peter Minuit (1626–32) Sebastiaen...
original on May 18, 2015. Retrieved May 16, 2015. "'Scrubs' Near the D Train". The New York Times. May 11, 2008. Archived from the original on May 11, 2008...
Nieuw Dorp The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions CorneliusJacobsenMay (1620–25) Willem Verhulst (1625–26) Peter Minuit (1626–32) Sebastiaen...
Kieft—1638-1647 Peter Stuyvesant—1647-1664 The company appointed CorneliusJacobsen Mey in 1624 as the first (provisional) director of the New Netherland...
Romeyn Brodhead, CorneliusJacobsenMay was appointed as the first Director of the colony, with Adrian Joris as second in command. May hastened south to...
(1763–1833), widower of Jane Gilliland. Catharine Westerlo Bleecker ⚭ Cornelius Van Rensselaer (1801–1871) Jacobus Van Rensselaer (1713–1762) Gertrude...
estate was further extended, on May 5, 1630, by the purchase of a tract twelve miles square (31 km²) on the coast of Cape May opposite, and the transaction...
the Peach War has been the subject of debate. The armed protest and raids may have been triggered by the murder of a Munsee woman who was stealing peaches...
Nieuw Dorp The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions CorneliusJacobsenMay (1620–25) Willem Verhulst (1625–26) Peter Minuit (1626–32) Sebastiaen...
in the Staten Island Borough Hall by Frederick Charles Stahr entitled Cornelius Melyn Trades With the Indians. Paul Gibson Burton (1936). The New York...
of the colony of New Sweden on the Delaware River from 1658 to 1663." In May 2013, for the 375th anniversary of the Swedish landing, King Carl XVI Gustaf...
branch of the family were Barons of Belgium. Wilhelmus' grandfather, Cornelius Beekman, was a wealthy burgher of Cologne, who resided on the Rhine in...