Editing Samuel Blommaert (section)

==New Netherlands==
[[File:Nieuw Nederland and Nya Sverige.svg|thumb|right|The relative locations of New Netherland (magenta) and New Sweden (blue) in America; modern state boundaries and postal abbreviations are shown]]

By 1621, he invested in the Amsterdam chamber of the [[Dutch West India Company]] and was appointed director in October 1622.<ref>[http://www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/files/7513/8170/9110/The_Flemish_Influence_on_Nieuw_Nederland_Oct_5_2013_2of2.pdf The Flemish Influence on Nieuw Nederland]</ref> In 1623 he and [[Kiliaen van Rensselaer (Dutch merchant)|Kiliaen van Rensselaer]], [[Samuel Godijn]] en [[Albert Burgh|Albert Coenraetsz. Burgh]] were investigating the possibility of the slave trade in Angola.<ref>K. Ratelband (2006) De Westafrikaanse reis van Piet Heyn 1624-1625, p. LV.</ref> In 1624 his grandfather [[Jacob Hoefnagel]] became one of the three mayors in [[Gothenburg]] and president of the court of justice for a while.<ref name="buk">{{Cite web |date=2024-12-06 |title=Jacob Hoefnagel Attributed to, "Konung Gustaf II Adolf" och "Drottning Maria Eleonora". |url=https://www.bukowskis.com/en/auctions/554/257D-jacob-hoefnagel-attributed-to-konung-gustaf-ii-adolf-och-drottning-maria-eleonora |access-date=2024-12-12 |website=Bukowskis |language=en}}</ref> [[Louis De Geer (1587–1652)|Louis de Geer]] received the official monopoly on the copper and iron trade in Sweden and decided to settle there. In 1627 Blommaert had an argument with Pieter Trip about 34 Swedish guns.<ref>Klein, P.W. (1963) De Trippen in de 17e eeuw, p. 279.</ref>

In 1628 he collaborated with Van Rensselaer, Godijn and Burgh.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/beleven/verhalenarchief/samuel-blommaert | title=Samuel Blommaert }}</ref> Godyn, Van Rensselaer and Samuel Blommaert sent two persons to New Netherland to inspect the country.<ref>[https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Notification_by_Samuel_Godyn,_Kiliaen_van_Rensselaer_and_Samuel_Blommaert_that_they_send_two_persons_to_New_Netherland_to_inspect_the_country&oldid=10855997 Wikisource]</ref> Gilles Housset and Jacob Jansz Cuyper bargained with the natives for a tract of land reaching from [[Cape Henlopen]] to the mouth of the [[Delaware River]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hetverhalenarchief.nl/image/59|title = Verhalenarchief}}</ref> This was in 1629, three years before the charter of [[Maryland]], and is the oldest deed for land in the state of [[Delaware]]. <!-- Its water-front nearly coincides with the coast of [[Kent County, Delaware|Kent]] and [[Sussex County, Delaware|Sussex]] coast.{{cn}} --> The purchase was ratified in 1630 by [[Peter Minuit]] and his council at [[Fort Amsterdam]].<ref>''The First Settlers'' ( Delaware Living History) http://www.delawareliving.com/history.html {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508145209/http://delawareliving.com/history.html |date=2009-05-08 }}</ref>

A company was formed to colonize the tract that included Blommaert, Godin, Van Rensselaer, [[Joannes de Laet]] (a geographer), and [[David Pietersz. de Vries|David Pietersen de Vries]]. A ship of eighteen guns was fitted out to bring over the colonists and subsequently defend the coast, with incidental whale-fishing to help defray expenses. A colony of more than thirty souls was planted on Lewes creek, a little north of Cape Henlopen, and its governorship was entrusted to Gilles Housset. This settlement antedated by several years any in [[Pennsylvania]], and the colony at [[Lewes, Delaware|Lewes]] practically laid the foundation and defined the singularly limited area of the state of Delaware, the major part of which was included in the purchase. A [[palisade]]d fort was built, with the "red lion, rampant," of Holland affixed to its gate, and the country was named "Swaanendael" or [[Zwaanendael Colony]], while the water was called [[Delaware Bay|Godyn's Bay]]. The estate was further extended, on May 5, 1630, by the purchase of a tract twelve miles square on the coast of [[Cape May]] opposite, and the transaction was duly attested at [[Fort Amsterdam]].

The existence of the little colony was short, for the Indians came down upon it in revenge for an arbitrary act on the part of Housset, and it was destroyed, not a soul escaping to tell the tale. According to acknowledged precedent, occupancy of the wilderness served to perfect title; but before the Dutch could reoccupy the desolated site at Lewes, the English were practically in possession.<ref>''Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert 1628'' (Caleb Johnson. MayflowerHistory.com) {{cite web |url=http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/PrimarySources/IsaacRasieresLetters.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-07-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080725132815/http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/PrimarySources/IsaacRasieresLetters.pdf |archive-date=2008-07-25 }}</ref>

Because of the ongoing [[Polish–Swedish War (1626–1629)]], no grain could be exported through the city of [[Gdańsk|Dantzig]].<ref>[[J.G. van Dillen]] (1970) Van Rijkdom en Regenten, p. 65.</ref>  In 1630 the price of grain remained extremely high due to increasing competition. [[Albert Burgh]] tried to ensure a monopoly for the City of Amsterdam in [[Moscovy]]. In 1631 Blommaert bought rye in [[Archangelsk]]. Isaac Coymans, his brother-in-law, moved all his furniture to Keizersgracht 139 as Coymans was in trouble for embezzlement.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}} In 1631 De Geer had a disagreement with his partner Elias Trip. The quarrel was resolved in 1634?