Remonstrance to Director Peter Stuyvesant to surrender to British 1664

Being new to this, I just figured something out: I linked the Remonstrance as a document to the NOTABLE CITIZENS PROJECT:

http://www.geni.com/projects/New-Amsterdam-Notable-Citizens/media/5376

I guess that's all that really needs to be done...

~• Mike vB

This is GREAT, Mike!
Now, the next challenge is... can we find the original document, in a scanned form? :-) (No, I'm not pushy)

It's a pretty significant historical document, another sign of the nature of the Dutch settlement (business first!)

More importantly, can we identify the people in the painting?

http://www.history.com/news/the-dutch-surrender-new-netherland-350-...

I am hoping for Grietjen, the most notorious woman in New Amsterdam, who mooned the British Navy ....

Sorry - here's the painting tagged to project & profile (provenance of the painting needed, I guess ...)

http://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000031530892266

@Grietje Reyniers was in her sixties at the time of the surrender. Her "golden" days were well behind her. I read somewhere yesterday that there is a contemporary New Netherland document that characterizes her in her later years as more respectable but still cantankerous... (lol)
Is the @Anthony Jansen Janszoon van Salee signature on the document? I'll have to look..... Maybe the two of them were over near Coney Island that week? ;)

If only we could have a full timeline for the era, and then attach the documents to the events, and then attach the people to the events, too :-)
I've been experimenting with some concepts the past few weeks, and hope to come up with some reasonable recommendations that make sense and are feasible. Geni development workload permitting!...

A full translation of the text may be seen at:

https://books.google.com/books?id=DFFp0blZCZgC&pg=PA250&lpg...

The title of the work is

Documents relative to the colonial history: procured in Holland, England and France (Google eBook)

by John Romeyn Brodhead
Wees Parsons, 1858

text starts on page 249 and spills over onto p.250

Mike, for your info... Nearly four years ago we set up a Facebook community page for New Amsterdam. It has been VERY dormant for a long time.
However, I do think that there is substantial interest out there from people to learn more about New Amsterdam, so I think it's a matter of reaching out to potential followers and to maintain a steady stream of information.
I'm just saying this to have it in mind :-)
https://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Amsterdam-Project/129761257113815

One thing we wanted is to bring brief stories to readers. Funny stories, or more serious ones. Possibly also news from institutions that research New Amsterdam, events... You name it.

Thanks. I've joined the New Amsterdam Project on FB...
On the general topic of Discussions on Geni: I wonder if there would be a way to inform new users of the resource of the Discussions and Projects such a a search tab or some such visual representation. It seems to me that many users aren't aware of the resources at their disposal.

George J. Homs

Die slaat een spijker op zijn kop !

Definitely, Mike. As said, it has been dormant for too long, and deserves to be overhauled. I'll try and come up with some ideas today.