Rebecca Westfall Project
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The Memorandum Book of Anthony De Hooges
One of the great pleasures of the Westfall project was finding Dirk Mouw’s book The Memorandum Book of Anthony De Hooges which provides English translations of the many notes the young De Hooges recorded while at the Rensselaerswyck colony. One of my favorites was a 1647 note about seeing a white whale in the Hudson Continue reading
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Map of Westfall Ancestors in New Amsterdam
One of my favorite pages in this project is Appendix G – Westfall Ancestors in New Amsterdam – 1660. For one thing, I love old maps and I like working them into reports where I can. I also like presenting individual biographical information in a larger context, whether that’s in the context of outside historical Continue reading
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