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Translations & Transitions Govert Loockermans, a Manhattan Merchant’s Correspondence & Papers More → |
Voyages Maritime routes that shaped the Dutch North Atlantic world More → |
Zotero Bibliography Research Source: 17th century scholarly, non-fiction publications More → |
Genealogical Research What’s in a Name? Discover your ancestors’ origins More → |
Collected on this page are the manuscript images, transcription, and translation of the Govert Loockermans Correspondence and Papers, N.D., 1647-1700 (Series XXII of the Stuyvesant-Rutherfurd Papers at the New-York Historical Society.) The New Netherland Institute would like to thank the New-York Historical Society for its assistance. Please note that the manuscipt images are not high-resolution scans, but images taken with a camera in the research room.
A companion piece to the collection is. This is a translation of the article Govert Loockermans (1617?-1671?) en zijn verwanten: Hoe een Turnhoutenaar zich wist op te werken in de Nieuwe Wereld by Willem Frijhoff (Erasmus University, Rotterdam / VU-University, Amsterdam), which was published in Taxandria, Jaarboek van de Geschied- en Oudheidkundige Kring van de Antwerpse Kempen, LXXXII (2011), 5-68.
Finding aid at New-York Historical Society
Govert Loockermans: Correspondence and Papers Translation by Wim Vanraes PDF
Govert Loockermans: Correspondence and Papers Transcription by New Netherland Research Center Associate Director Janny Venema PDF
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