FYI When I opened the spotted cow web site, my security program warned me it was a dangerous web site because of spyware. Tom Terbush -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Olive Tree Genealogy Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 6:36 AM To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] DE BONTE KOE > > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 10:24:04 EDT > From: Jacassidy22@aol.com > Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] The Spotted Cow or Bonte Koe > To: Dutch-Colonies@rootsweb.com, NEW-NETHERLAND@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <c08.191cb658.338ee304@aol.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > > 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. > Judy, DE BONTE KOE (The Spotted Cow) Sailed from Amsterdam 16 April 1663, arrived in New Amsterdam betwen 11 May 1663 and 17 August 1663 with Captain Jan Bergen see http://olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/nnship23.shtml You might also want to have a look at "De Scheepvaart en handel van de Nederlandse Republiek op Nieuw-Nederland 1609-1675", an unpublished thesis by Jaap Jacobs ( translated by Willem Rabbelier and Cor Snabel) at http://olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/mm_shipamny.shtml Lorine -- Olive Tree Genealogy http://olivetreegenealogy.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message