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Cornelius Jacobson Mey
1st Director of New Netherland
In office
1624–1625
Succeeded byWillem Verhulst

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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Cornelius Jacobsen May

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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...

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Cape May

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Adriaen Block, and Cornelis Jacobsen Mey. The recorded history of Cape May stretches back to 1620, when Captain Cornelius Jacobsen Mey surveyed and named the...

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New Amsterdam

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Governors Island) aboard the ship Nieu Nederlandt under the command of Cornelius Jacobsen May, who disembarked on the island with thirty families to take legal...

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New Netherland

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Willemsz Cat respectively. Adriaen Block, Hendrick Christiaensen, and Cornelius Jacobsen Mey explored, surveyed, and mapped the area between Maryland and Massachusetts...

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Directors of New Netherland

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Portrait Director or Director-General Took office Left office Notes Cornelius Jacobsen May (fl. 1600s) 1624 1625 Explored Delaware Bay, New York Bay, Hudson...

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Great Egg Harbor River

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Egg Harbor (and thus the river) got its name from Dutch explorer Cornelius Jacobsen May. In 1614, Mey came upon the inlet to the Great Egg Harbor River...

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Mohicans

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destroyed by flooding and abandoned for good. In 1624, Captain Cornelius Jacobsen May sailed the Nieuw Nederlandt upriver and landed eighteen families...

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Wall Street

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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...

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Patroon

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Nieuw Dorp The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions Cornelius Jacobsen May (1620–25) Willem Verhulst (1625–26) Peter Minuit (1626–32) Sebastiaen...

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Brooklyn

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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...

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Beverwijck

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Nieuw Dorp The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions Cornelius Jacobsen May (1620–25) Willem Verhulst (1625–26) Peter Minuit (1626–32) Sebastiaen...

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Fort Amsterdam

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Kieft—1638-1647 Peter Stuyvesant—1647-1664 The company appointed Cornelius Jacobsen Mey in 1624 as the first (provisional) director of the New Netherland...

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Adrian Jorisszen Tienpoint

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Romeyn Brodhead, Cornelius Jacobsen May was appointed as the first Director of the colony, with Adrian Joris as second in command. May hastened south to...

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Van Rensselaer family

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(1763–1833), widower of Jane Gilliland. Catharine Westerlo Bleecker ⚭ Cornelius Van Rensselaer (1801–1871) Jacobus Van Rensselaer (1713–1762) Gertrude...

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Zwaanendael Colony

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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...

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Peach War

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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...

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Sebastiaen Jansen Krol

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25 January 1624 he sailed to New Netherland, where he arrived when Cornelius May just had become the first Director-General. In November 1624 he had...

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Willem Kieft

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Nieuw Dorp The Patroon System Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions Cornelius Jacobsen May (1620–25) Willem Verhulst (1625–26) Peter Minuit (1626–32) Sebastiaen...

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Cornelis Melyn

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in the Staten Island Borough Hall by Frederick Charles Stahr entitled Cornelius Melyn Trades With the Indians. Paul Gibson Burton (1936). The New York...

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Fort Christina

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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...

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Beekman family

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branch of the family were Barons of Belgium. Wilhelmus' grandfather, Cornelius Beekman, was a wealthy burgher of Cologne, who resided on the Rhine in...

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