Category: Dutch West India Company

Categories: Middle Colonies | New Netherland | North America, Slavery | North America, Slave Traders | Caribbean | Brazil, Slavery

Dutch West India Company was a chartered company (known as the "WIC") of Dutch merchants and foreign investers. A few of its founding members were Willem Usselincx (1567–1647) and Jessé de Forest (1576–1624).

On June 3, 1621, it was granted a charter for a trade monopoly in the West Indies (meaning the Caribbean) by the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands and given jurisdiction over:

• the Atlantic slave trade,
• Brazil,
• the Caribbean,
• and North America.

The area where the company could operate consisted of West Africa (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Cape of Good Hope) and the Americas, which included the Pacific Ocean and the eastern part of New Guinea. The intended purpose of the charter was to eliminate competition, particularly Spanish or Portuguese, between the various trading posts established by the merchants. The company became instrumental in the Dutch colonization of the Americas.

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In het Nederlands : West-Indische Compagnie

New Netherland Settlements

The Atlantic Slave Trade

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Wilhelmus Beeckman 28 Apr 1623 Hasselt, Overijssel, Nederland - 21 Sep 1707

Evert Willemsz Bogardus 1607 Woerden, Holland (Utrecht, Nederland) - 27 Sep 1647

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Joannes de Laet bef Dec 1581 Antwerpen, Belgie (Oostenrijkse Nederlanden) - bef 15 Dec 1649

Jesse (Desforetz) De Forest 1576 Avesnes, Comté de Hainaut, Pays-Bas espagnols - 22 Oct 1624

Wallerandt Du Mont abt 1635 Comines, Flandres francais (Nord), France - abt 13 Sep 1713

Johannes Dyckman bef 26 Nov 1619 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland - Sep 1672

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Cornelius Lambert (Hendrickson) Hendricksz 1572 Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland - 1650

Augustine Herman abt 10 Dec 1605 Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire - 10 Sep 1686

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Dirck Janszen abt 1620 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland - bef 11 Nov 1687

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Petrus Loockermans bef 05 Oct 1614 Turnhout, Antwerpen, Belgium - aft 02 Jul 1674

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Nathaniel (Pieters) Hennion bef 08 Jul 1636 Leiden, Holland, Netherlands - 1688

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William Teller abt 1620 Shetland, Scotland - bef 23 May 1701

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Willem Usselincx 1567 Antwerp, Belgium - abt 1647

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Aernout van Buchel 18 Mar 1565 Utrecht, Utrecht, Nederland - 15 Jul 1641

Killiaen van Renselaer abt 1585 Hasselt, Overijssel, Nederland - bef 07 Oct 1643

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Gerrit (van Sweringen) Van Swearingen abt 1636 Rijnsaterwoude, Holland, Nederland - abt 1698

Willem Isaacsen (van Vredenburg) van Vredenburgh bef 01 Jan 1637 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland - aft 15 Feb 1704

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Abraham Willemszen 1628 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland - 13 Nov 1649

Hendrick Martensen Wiltsee 14 Mar 1623 At sea, on the ship New Amsterdam, en route to New Netherland - 1712

Jonas Cornelisz Witsen 1566 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland - 13 Oct 1626

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