The Holland Land Company was an unincorporated syndicate of thirteen Dutch investors from Amsterdam, headquartered in Philadelphia, who purchased large...
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Joseph Ellicott (section Holland Land Company)
group of Dutch investors, who had formed the Holland Land Company. He also extended the New York - Pennsylvania border westward. When the company purchased...
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Phelps and Gorham Purchase (redirect from Holland Land Purchase)
County, named for Nathaniel Gorham Holland, a town in Erie County, named for the Holland Purchase or the Holland Land Company Leroy, New York, a town in Genesee...
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Holland is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 3,401 at the 2010 census. The name is derived from the Holland Land Company...
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and erected in the 1810s. It was the third and last office of the Holland Land Company, which owned almost all of what is today Western New York. Ellicott...
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Batavia, New York (section Holland Land Company)
Revolutionary banker, by the Holland Land Company, a consortium of Dutch bankers. The village of Batavia was founded in 1802 by resident Land Agent Joseph Ellicott...
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and shotguns. The company holds two royal warrants. Holland & Holland was founded by Harris Holland (1806–1896) in 1835. Harris Holland was born in 1806...
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Theophilus Cazenove (category Dutch emigrants to the United States)
Cazenove (13 October 1740 – 6 March 1811), was a Dutch financier and one of the agents of the Holland Land Company. Theophilus Cazenove was baptized in the Westerkerk...
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Willem Willink (category Articles with Dutch-language sources (nl))
was a wealthy Amsterdam merchant, and one of the investors in the Holland Land Company, and the Louisiana Purchase. The Willink family came from Winterswijk...
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The Dutch West India Company or WIC (Dutch: Westindische Compagnie) Dutch pronunciation: [ʋɛstˈɪndisə kɔmpɑˈɲi] was a chartered company of Dutch merchants...
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Resident Land Agent for the Holland Land Company in Batavia. The committee designated Mayville as the county seat, rubberstamping the Holland Land Company plan...
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province of Holland was split into the two provinces of North Holland and South Holland. In 1855, the Haarlemmermeer was drained and turned into land. The provincial...
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Revolution, and the wealthiest man in the United States. (See Holland Land Company, The Holland Purchase, and The Morris Reserve.) In 1792, Franklin sold...
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town is named after Theophile Cazenove, the Agent General of the Holland Land Company. The Town of Cazenovia has a village also named Cazenovia. The town...
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village of Buffalo, and his office in Batavia was making sales for the Holland Land Company. The purchase of Seneca reservations at Caneadea, Big Tree, Squawky...
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The village is named after Joseph Ellicott, principal land agent of the Holland Land Company. It lies in the southwest part of the town of Ellicottville...
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Paul Busti (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
operating officer) of the Holland Land Company from 1799 until his death in 1824. As administrator of the Holland Land Company, Busti was responsible for...
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Look up Holland or holland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Holland is a region within the Netherlands. Holland may also refer to: Holland may refer...
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Gerrit Boon, an agent of the Holland Land Company to help develop and sell land that had been purchased as investments. The Holland Patent Stone Churches Historic...
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census. The town is named after Joseph Ellicott, principal land agent of the Holland Land Company. The town of Ellicottville includes a village also called...
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New Holland (Dutch: Nieuw-Holland) is a historical European name for mainland Australia. The name was first applied to Australia in 1644 by the Dutch seafarer...
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By 1941 the company possessed 13 properties in Central. One of the most notable among them was Marina House, Alexandra Building, Holland House, Queen's...
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community was named after William Temple Franklin, an agent with the Holland Land Company and the grandson of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. The village...
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Holland is a global full-line agricultural machinery manufacturer founded in New Holland, Pennsylvania, and now based in Turin, Italy. New Holland's products...
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town, along with neighboring Otto, is named after an agent of the Holland Land Company, Jacob Otto. The town of East Otto is on the northern border of the...
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Aaron Burr (category American company founders)
served there through 1799. During this time, he cooperated with the Holland Land Company in gaining passage of a law to permit aliens to hold and convey lands...
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Gerrit Boon (category 18th-century Dutch people)
1797. In 1798, Boon returned to Holland. His assistant Adam Gerard Mappa took over as the agent of the Holland Land Company and lived in his house until...
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census. The village is named after Gerrit Boon, an agent of the Holland Land Company. The Village of Boonville is within the Town of Boonville in the...
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century), with the intersecting streets bearing the names of Dutch Holland Land Company members, today Erie, Church and Niagara streets. Lafayette Square...
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derives its name from David E. Evans, an agent of the Holland Land Company and nephew of land agent Joseph Ellicott. The town is approximately 20 miles...
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