Samuel Blommaert
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Samuel Blommaert was a Flemish-Dutch merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642. In the latter period, he was a paid commissioner of Sweden in
Samuel Blommaert (1647)
Portrait of Gerard Reynst, Blommaert's father-in-law
In 1615 Gerrit Reynst became the owner of an empty lot, now Prinsengracht 2; his heirs, two daughters who married Samuel Blommaert and Isaac Coymans sold the lots in 1617, 1618, and 1622.
Samuel Godin
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Samuel Godin, Godyn or Godijn was a wealthy merchant, originally from the Spanish Netherlands, trading in Spain, Brazil and the Levant. He was one of the administrators of the Noordsche Compagnie, inv
Samuel Blommaert
…brother-in-law. By 1621, he invested in the Amsterdam chamber of the WIC and was appointed director in October 1622. In 1623, he and Kiliaen van Rensselaer, Samuel Godijn, and Albert Coenraetsz. Burgh were investigating the possibility of the slave trade in Angola. In 1624 his grandfather Jacob Hoefnagel became one of…
De Groenlandsche pakhuizen (Greenland warehouses) on Keizersgracht 40–44, built in 1621. Godin owned 1/10 of the originally five warehouses