Adam Gerard Mappa
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Adam Gerard Mappa was a Dutch type-founder, Patriot and active colonel in a local militia. In 1794 he became the agent for the Holland Land Company in New York and three years later supervisor in the
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Gerrit Boon
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Gerrit Boon was the son of a Lutheran minister Johan Michiel Boon. His father studied in Helmstedt and moved in 1752 from Amersfoort to Delft and in 1774 to Rotterdam. Gerrit Boon became a sugar refin
Adam Gerard Mappa
…on 22 Greenwich Street, Manhattan) but, even though he could produce Oriental letters, the business was not a success. In 1794, he took over from Gerrit Boon an appointment as agent of the Holland Land Company in Trenton. His best friend François Adriaan van der Kemp, whom Mappa once called a hermit, came…
Gerrit Boon