I'll take Manhattan

Monday, February 27, 2012

In every family there are stories of long lost relatives who have accomplished great things, or attained high places, or at the other extreme, have committed foul deeds, and have gotten themselves in serious trouble. We tend to not talk about those folks. In our family we have a situation, which might lie between the two extremes. On my mother's side, we trace our lineage back to Holland, in the 1600s, to the family of one of the Dutch families that came to colonize the New World. They were sponsored by the Dutch West Indies Company, as part of the Company's plan to compete with the Spanish for the American fur trade. Eventually the Dutch traders had trading posts at the present cities of Albany New York, Hartford Connecticut, and Trenton New Jersey.

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