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Cornelius Jacobsen Mey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cornelis Jacobsz Mey (also Cornelius ; May ; Meij ), was a Dutch explorer, captain and fur trader, and namesake of Cape May, Cape May County, and the city of Cape May, New Jersey, so named firs...
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Cornelius Jacobsen Mey was appointed by the Dutch West Company [DWI] to be the first director of what eventually became New Netherland and its major center and focus, New Amsterdam, in the summer of 1624. Mey was the captain of the “New Netherland”, the ship that brought the first 30, mostly Walloon and...
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Verhulst took over the directorship duties from Captain Mey, who probably was more interested in doing more exploration than in managing the new fledgling colony. THE NEXT FOUR NEW NETHERLAND DIRECTORS The directorship of the new colony, with Verhulst in charge, apparently did not work out well.
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Cornelis Jacobszoon May (also Cornelius; Mey; Meij), was a Dutch explorer, captain and fur trader, and namesake of Cape ... Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-25); Willem Verhulst (1625-26); Peter Minuit (1626-32); Sebastiaen Jansen Krol(1632-33); Wouter van Twiller (1633-38); Willem Kieft (1638-47); Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64)
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Cape May - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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With the ship that brought the first families was Cornelius Jacobsen May, who was to live on the Island of Manhattan and look after affairs for the Company. Rude houses were set up about the fort, and the first street came into existence.
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. The cape is named for Cornelius Jacobsen Mey ... , and Cornelis Jacobsen Mey. The recorded history of Cape May stretches back to 1620, when captain Cornelius Jacobsen Mey surveyed and named the area for himself. It later grew from a small settlement to the large beach resort it is today.
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Cornelius Jacobsen Mey - Willem Verhulst, New Netherland, Schellinkhout, Northeast passage, Joris van Spilbergen - VisWiki ... The main article content on this page (titled: "Cornelius Jacobsen Mey") was retrieved on the fly from Wikipedia (i.e., your page access date equals the data retrieval date).
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in: of Hoorn ... Name: Helena Mey ... Pieter Cornelius Mey...
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It wasn’t until 1620 that Dutch Captain Cornelius Jacobsen Mey came upon the same peninsula while exploring the Delaware River. Captain Mey named the area Cape Mey after himself; the spelling was later changed to Cape May.
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