Recently I heard from Vince Akers, and he noted that our Lammert Jansen Dorland came over on the Spotted Cow, as did his mother's Demaree ancestor. Vince told me that he and his family were in Amsterdam in 1997, they lucked into an exhibit on BonteKoe at the Maritime Museum and I quote: "It turns out that the skipper of the Spotted Cow named his son BonteKoe and that son because a famous seafaring explorer about whom legends were many and many books were written including children's story books. BONTEKOE, the man or the legend seemd to have become a kind of Dutch version of Daniel Boone." I decided to see if there was anything on line that I could pull up that would expand on his information, however the museum and library are both closed for renovations. However, here is their website: _http://www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl/_ (http://www.scheepvaartmuseum.nl/) If anyone has further information to add to this, I would be very interested. Thanks Judy ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

Hi all, From: <Jacassidy22@aol.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:24 AM Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] The Spotted Cow or Bonte Koe > > Recently I heard from Vince Akers, and he noted that our Lammert Jansen > Dorland came over on the Spotted Cow, as did his mother's Demaree ancestor. > Vince told me that he and his family were in Amsterdam in 1997, they lucked > into an exhibit on BonteKoe at the Maritime Museum and I quote: "It turns out > that the skipper of the Spotted Cow named his son BonteKoe and that son > because a famous seafaring explorer about whom legends were many and many books > were written including children's story books. BONTEKOE, the man or the > legend seemd to have become a kind of Dutch version of Daniel Boone." The ship Bonte Koe on which Lammert Jansen Dorlant came to New Netherland in 1663 appears to be a different one from the one captained by BonteKoe. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_Ysbrandtsz._Bontekoe This appears to be his journal of BonteKoe's 1618 to 1625 adventure: http://books.google.com/books?id=T7yZlTceQ88C&dq=bontekoe&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=1V9ICEvApw&sig=cXgiwf46cu7sHpLgl8zn2BpEpMw Regards, Howard hswain@ix.netcom.com