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Council of twelve men
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[show]New Netherland series
Colonies:
* New Amsterdam
* New Haarlem
* Noortwyck
* Beverwyck
* Wiltwyck
* Vlissingen
* Middelburgh
* Heemstede
* Rustdorp
* Gravesende
* Breuckelen
* New Amersfoort
* Midwout
* New Utrecht
* Boswyck
* Swaanendael
* New Amstel
* Altena
Fortresses:
* Fort Amsterdam
* Fort Nassau (North)
* Fort Orange
* Fort Nassau (South)
* Fort Goede Hoop
* Fort Casimir
* Fort Altena
* Fort Wilhelmus
* Fort Beversreede
* Fort Nya Korsholm
The Patroon System
Rensselaerwyck
Colen Donck (Yonkers, New York)
Directors-General of New Netherland:
Cornelius Jacobsen Mey (1620-1625)
Willem Verhulst (1625-26)
Peter Minuit (1626-33)
Wouter van Twiller (1633-38)
Willem Kieft (1638-47)
Peter Stuyvesant (1647-64)
Influential people
Adriaen van der Donck
Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Brant van Slichtenhorst
Cornelis van Tienhoven
Councils
Council of twelve men
Council of eight men
The Council of Twelve Men was a group of 12 men chosen in 1641 by the residents of New Amsterdam to advise the Director-General of New Netherland, Willem Kieft, on relations with the Native Americans due to the murder of Claes Swits. [1]
Three questions
The councilmen were asked 3 questions:
1. Whether it is not just to punish the barbarous murder of Claes Swits committed by an Indian and, in case the Indians refuse to surrender the murderer at our request, whether it is not justifiable to ruin the entire village to which he belongs?
2. In what manner the same ought be put into effect and at what time?
3. By whom it may be undertaken?
War
They did not counsel war, as desired by Willem Kieft. They proposed a friendly request to be sent to the Indians to surrender the murderer. Because Willem Kieft was not happy with the reply of the council of twelve, he disassembled the council on February 8, 1642. Kieft then ordered the Dutch West India Company soldiers to attack nearby Indian villages. Attacks between the Indians and the West India Company soldiers led to a near devastation of New Amsterdam in 1643.
Nascent democracy
Although the council was not permanent, it was the first representational form of democracy in the Dutch colony. The next time a council was created it was a council of eight men.
Councilmen
* David Pietersen de Vries (chairman)
* Maryn Adriaensen
* Jacques Benteyn
* Jan Jansen Damen
* Gerrit Dircksen
* Hendrik Jansen
* Jochem Pietersen Kuyter
* Frederick Lubbertsen
* Abram Molenaar
* Joris Jansen Rapalje
* Jacob Stoffelsen
* Abraham Ver Planck
references
1. ^ Jacobs, Jaap (2005). New Netherland: A Dutch Colony In Seventeenth-Century America. ISBN 9004129065. “Both in the way it was set up and in the extent of its rights, the council of Twelve Men, as did the two later advisory bodies ...”
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