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
Gerrit Boon
John Lincklaen
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John Lincklaen was the founder of Cazenovia, New York. Lincklaen was the Resident Land Agent for the Holland Land Company in Cazenovia, New York, and later the owner and sales agent for the same tract
Gerrit Boon
…to Rotterdam. Gerrit Boon became a sugar refinerer in the city, working for his brother-in-law. He went to the United States in 1790 where he met with John Lincklaen. In 1792, he bought 30,000 acres (120 km2) near the West Canada Creek. Then he moved to a cabin near Cincinnati and Steuben Creek. Boon believed that…
John Lincklaen portrait
View on Plantage Muidergracht and Roeterseiland on the left, the area where Lincklaen grew up, drawing by Jan Schouten ca. 1749