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The DeMey van Streefkerk Papers in Minneapolis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Extract

The James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis has among its various holdings on the history ol European expansion a collection ol papers that emanated Irom the prominent Dutch DeMey van Streefkerk family. The papers were obtained by curator John Parker from the Amsterdam antiquarian firm B.M. Israel in 1958. The documents are all in Dutch and they pertain primarily to plantation affairs ol the Dutch colony of Surinam for the years 1717–1830. Due to the language barrier and the lack of a suitable inventory of the documents, little use has been made ol the papers thus far. Recently, this author has prepared a comprehensive inventory of the collection, which can be obtained from the James Ford Bell Library. The inventory is fourteen pages in length, in condensed print; and, thanks to modern computer techniques, is available in both a catalogue and a chronological listing.

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Copyright
Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1986

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Notes

1 Price, Richard, of John Hopkins University, first called attention to these papers in the pages of Itinerario 3, 2 (1979) 3.Google Scholar

2 P.C. Emmer, of the University of Leiden, called my attention to the collection at the ARA; R. Beeldsnijdcr, of the Royal Library in The Hague, was kind enough to send me a copy of its inventory.

3 For these inventories see documents v,z,y,kk, mt and ao.

4 See documents e, g, I, h, i, l, m, q, v, dl and du.

5 See ‘Mey van Streefkerk’ in Nieuw Nederlands Biografisch Woordenboek VIII (1930) 1149.Google Scholar

6 For details on the family genealogy see documents bl, bm, bn, cu, nc and nd.

7 Sec documents nc and nd.

8 See documents ds, dt and ws.

9 See documents y, sh and vo.