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Willem Kieft

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Director of New Netherland (1597-1647)

PoliticiansLived 1597 to 1647 · aged 50

Fame49.4

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Willem Kieft, also Wilhelm Kieft, was a Dutch merchant and the Director of New Netherland from 1638 to 1647.

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The handwritten Journal of New Netherland 1647 by an unknown Dutch colonist, from the manuscript collections of the National Library of the Netherlands, is an important source for the study of Kieft's governorship, the war, and New Netherland in the 1640s.

The handwritten Journal of New Netherland 1647 by an unknown Dutch colonist, from the manuscript collections of the National Library of the Netherlands, is an important source for the study of Kieft's governorship, the war, and New Netherland in the 1640s.

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Politicians

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Politician

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deceased

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Lived 1597 to 1647 · aged 50

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