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Historical series of the Reformed Church in America volume no. 42
Pub. Date
[2002]
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English
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2008.
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English
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Based on records in Europe, mostly in archives in London, Rotterdam, and Amsterdam, which are not generally available to researchers in North America, and which identify early Dutch settlers and early shipping links in the Americas between 1615 and 1815.
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"The first Dutch immigration to the Calumet Region took place in the second half of the 19th century. The area settled by the Dutch spans roughly from what today is part of Chicago's Southside to the western border of Griffith, Indiana, and includes the communities of Roseland, South Holland, Lansing, Munster, and Highland. Once in the region, the Dutch carved communities out of the wilderness by clearing and draining the land and raising large families;...
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