New Walcheren
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Information for Authority record
Name (Latin)
New Walcheren
Other forms of name
Nieuw Walcheren
Nouvelle Walchre
Type of jurisdiction
Colonies
See Also From tracing corporate name
Tobago (Colony)
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q2059961
Sources of Information
- Déclaration, 1665:broadside (Nous Adrian, Jean & Gelein Lampsins, Seigneurs de l'Isle & Baronnie de Tabago en l'Amérique, (appellée maintenant La nouvelle Walchre))
- translation: Nieuw Walcheren was a colony of the West India Company [Netherlands] on the south coast of the Caribbean island of Tobago; English: New Walcheren; At the Peace of Westminster (1654) the Zeelanders received rights to Tobago, which they called Nieuw Walcheren. A group of six hundred settlers led by Pieter Becquart founded the settlement of Lampsinsburg, named after the shipowners Adriaan and Cornelis Lampsins ( (Wikipedia [Dutch], February 17, 2022) )