KIEFT, WILLEM

vĭlˈəm kēft, 1597–1647, Dutch director-general of New Netherland. Arriving in New Amsterdam in 1638 to succeed Wouter Van Twiller, Kieft immediately assumed absolute control. His arbitrary rule and tactless handling of the Native Americans resulted in almost continuous Native American warfare during his administration. He was replaced by Peter Stuyvesant (1647) and was lost at sea on his way to Holland.

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books on: Kieft Willem  - 38 results

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Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664
Book by J. Franklin Jameson; Charles Scribners Sons, 1909
Subjects: New York (State)--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775--Sources
...Keyser, Adrian, 339 , 369 . Kickx, Pierre, 31 . Kieft, Willem, 66 , 211 - 212 , 252 , 267 , 310 , 314 , 322 , 339...212 , 280 , 280 n., 299 n.; struggle of, against Kieft, 287 , 325 , 325 n.; and Stuyvesant, 325 n., 342...
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Foundations of Colonial America: A Documentary History - Vol. 3
Book by W. Keith Kavenagh; Chelsea House, 1973
Subjects: United States--Politics And Government--To 1775--Sources
...see also Maine Kent, Isle of, 1012-13; dispute over, 765-66 Kiccowtan Virginia , 1878 Kieft, Willem, 766-67, 995-1005 passim , 1565 Kieft War, 997, 1215 King Philips War, 286-87, 388 Kings Council of Virginia, 1856 -57 Kings...
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The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco
Book by Eric Burns; Temple University Press, 2007
Subjects: Antismoking Movement--History, Antismoking Movement--United States--History, Smoking--History, Tobacco Habit--History, Tobacco--Social Aspects, Tobacco--United States--History
...Monardes), 29 The Jungle (Sinclair), 156 Kennaway, Ernest L., 223 Kennedy, John F., 216 Keymis, Lawrence, 53 Kieft, Willem, 102 Kipling, Rudyard, 107 Klein, Daniel, 20 Klein, Richard, 94, 131, 160 Koch, Robert, 155 Kool, 195...
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Warpaths: Invasions of North America
Book by Ian K. Steele; Oxford University Press, 1994
Subjects: Ethnohistory--United States, Europe--Colonies--America--Administration, Indians Of North America--First Contact With Europeans, Indians Of North America--History--Sources, Indians Of North America--Wars--1600-1750
...183 -85 Kahnawake. See Caughnawaga Karankawa tribe , 77 Kaskaskias, 77 , 104 , 124 -25 Kickapoo tribe , 179 , 245 Kieft, Willem governor of New Netherlands , 115 -16, 117 King Georges War 1744-1748 , 132 , 170 - 74 King Philip Wampanoag sachem...
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Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation in New York City
Book by Thelma Wills Foote; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: African Americans--New York (State)--New York--History, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--History, Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Race Relations, New York (N.Y.)--History--Colonial Period, Ca. 1600-1775, New York (N.Y.)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783, New York (N.Y.)--Race Relations, Racism--New York (State)--New York--History, Slavery--New York (State)--New York--History
...River, 53 Kerry Peggy aka Margaret Salingburgh, i79-8o,i84 Kidd, Captain (William), 63 Kidd, C olin, 45 Kieft, Willem, 29-32 Killmorrie, Scotland, 60 King Georges War, 57, i49 King Street, 83 King, Boston, 219-22 King, John...
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The Netherlands
Journal article by Pieter Hovens; American Indian Quarterly, Vol. 17, 1993
Subjects: Indians Of Central America, Indians Of Mexico, Indians Of North America
...Indian garden plots by cattle. The demand of Governor Willem Kieft that the Indians pay tribute resulted in war in 1640...Algemeen Rijksarchief National Archives in The Hague (Willem Alexanderhof 1). They contain several hundred volumes...


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Honor Rolls School District 73 Hawthorn Middle School North Hawthorn Middle School South
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 9, 2011
Subjects: School districts
...Igliori, Kacper Jaskowski, Ada Kalenbach, Joann Kang, Matthew Kieft, Isabelle Kling, Dylan Klintworth, Emily Komessar, Bryce...Tatiana Lehocky, Isaiah Liu, Karen Liu, Isabel Lopez, Willem Lucas, John McDonald, Dana Meline, Thomas Millunchick, Megan...


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encyclopedia articles on: Kieft Willem  - 3 results

 
 
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Kieft, Willem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
KIEFT, WILLEM vil m keft, 1597 1647, Dutch director-general of New Netherland . Arriving in New Amsterdam in 1638 to succeed Wouter Van Twiller , Kieft immediately assumed absolute control. His arbitrary rule and tactless...
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Stuyvesant, Peter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Netherland. He served as governor of Curacao and lost a leg in an expedition against St. Martin before succeeding Willem Kieft in New Netherland. On his arrival (1647) in New Amsterdam (later New York City), he immediately informed the colonists...
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Van Twiller, Wouter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in 1633. Considerate of the Native Americans but blundering with his opponents, he left (1637) to his successor, Willem Kieft , a colony fraught with confusion. Van Twiller managed his uncles estate...


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