Wouter van Twiller – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Sun, 13 Jul 2014 18:26:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 Wouter van Twiller is Director of New Netherland ../../../wouter-van-twiller-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/ ../../../wouter-van-twiller-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/#respond Sun, 09 Feb 2014 21:08:47 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2279 c 1633 – c 1638

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– The fifth appointed by the Dutch  West India Company

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]]> ../../../wouter-van-twiller-is-director-general-of-new-netherland/feed/ 0 Wouter van Twiller grants land in New Amsterdam to Roeloff Jansen and his wife Anneke Jans ../../../wouter-van-twiller-grants-land-in-manhattan-to-roeloff-jansen-and-his-wife-anneke-jans/ ../../../wouter-van-twiller-grants-land-in-manhattan-to-roeloff-jansen-and-his-wife-anneke-jans/#respond Tue, 25 Mar 2014 05:02:37 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2879 c 1636

– They have one more child, Annitjen, soon after , and Jansen dies

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The area presently bounded by Canal Street to the north, Warren Street to the south, near Broadway to the east and the West Side Highway to the west comprising about 62 acres

The head of the farm is now Saint Johns Park

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Today the edge of the Hudson River is two to three blocks further west than pictured on this map

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