Jannetje Sebyns

  Noted events in her life were:

• History of Netherlands. 1600-1700 Britain waged wars against the Dutch. The English fleet sailed in three segments, the 3rd of which was commanded by a Rear Admiral. [see 1780-1783]
(SFEC, 8/3/97, Z1 p.2)

1600-1700 Cognac 1st appeared when Dutch sea merchants found that they could better preserve white wine shipped from France to northern Europe by distilling it. They then learned the wine got better as it aged in wooden barrels.
(WSJ, 7/14/03, p.A1)

1600-1700 West Timor was seized by the Netherlands.
(SFC, 3/3/98, p.A6)

1600-1800 A mass migration of nearly 1 million people in the 17th and 18th century led to the decline of this small nation.
(SFC, 3/31/98, p.F4)
1602 Mar 20, The Dutch East India Company was chartered to carry on trade in the East Indies. The company traded to 1798 whereupon its possessions were dissolved into the Dutch empire.
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~sdconinc/VOC/
(WUD, 1994, p.449)(Jap. Enc., BLDM, p. 215)(HNQ, 7/23/00)
1604 Sep 20, After a two-year siege, the Spanish retook Ostend [NW Belgium], the Netherlands, from the Dutch.
(WUD, 1994, p.1019)(HN, 9/20/98)
1609 Mar 25, Henry Hudson embarked on an exploration for Dutch East India Co.
(MC, 3/25/02)

1609 Sep 12, English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name. Hudson sailed for the Dutch East India Company in search of the Northwest Passage, a water route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, when he sailed up the present-day Hudson River.
(AP, 9/12/97)(HNQ, 7/23/00)
1617 The Pilgrims decided to leave the Netherlands. They formed a partnership in a joint-stock company with a group of London merchants in a company called John Pierce & Assoc. They received a grant for a plantation in the Virginia colony but ended up landing in Massachusetts. Each adult was to receive a share in the company but earnings would not be divided for 7 years.
(WSJ, 11/26/97, p.A14)

1618 Aug, Hugo Grotius, attorney general of Holland, was arrested on the orders of Prince Maurice of Nassau, ruler of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, for conspiring to undermine the authority of the government.
(ON, 10/04, p.1)
1619 May 13, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (b.1547), Dutch lands advocate, was beheaded.
(MC, 5/13/02)

1619 May 18, Hugo the Great (1582-1645), Hugo de Groot or Grotius, Dutch scholar, the "Father of Int'l. Law" and author of the 1st treatise on the law of the sea, Mare liberum," was sentenced to life in prison.
(SC, 5/18/02)(Internet)

1619 Jun 5, Hugo Grotius was taken to Loevestein Castle to begin his life sentence. His wife and 5 children were allowed to stay with him.
(ON, 10/04, p.1)

1619 Amsterdam opened a stock exchange.
(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)

1620 Jul 22, The Pilgrims set out from Holland destined for the New World. The Speedwell sailed to England from the Netherlands with members of the English Separatist congregation that had been living in Leiden, Holland. Joining the larger Mayflower at Southampton, the two ships set sail together in August, but the Speedwell soon proved unseaworthy and was abandoned at Plymouth, England. The entire company then crowded aboard the Mayflower, setting sail for North America on September 16, 1620.
(HNQ, 3/4/00)(MC, 7/22/02)

1621 Jun 3, The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New Netherlands, now known as New York. The Dutch West India Co. was formed to trade with America and West Africa.
(AP, 6/3/97)(WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42)
1622 Mar 22, Hugo Grotius escaped from Loevestein Castle.
(ON, 10/04, p.2)
1626 May 4, Dutch explorer Peter Minuit landed on what is now Manhattan island. Indians sold Manhattan Island for $24 in cloth and buttons. Peter Minuit became director-general of New Netherlands
(AP, 5/4/97)(HN, 5/4/98)(MC, 5/4/02)

1626 Nov 7, Peter Schager of Amsterdam informed the States General that the ship "The Arms of Amsterdam" had arrived with a cargo of furs and timber from New Netherlands and that the settlers there had bought the Island of Manhattan for 60 guilders.
(WSJ, 11/19/99, p.W10)

Jannetje married * Andries Luycaszen Andriessen, son of * Luykas Andriessen and Unknown, about 1617 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. (* Andries Luycaszen Andriessen was born in 1594 in Frederickstad, Denmark and died in 1680 in New Amsterdam.)