. Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York : embracing some account of the ancient remains ... and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland company; including reminiscences of the war of 1812; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie canal, etc., etc., OF , ElNOiCOTT a CO C. G. CREHEN. ^ocSo ^^I^IDII^IEIISSIP, HOLLAND PURCHASE. 429 JOHN J. VANDER KEMP. This gentleman was the successor of Mr. Busti, entering uponthe duties of general agent on the day of the death of his prede-cessor. He is a native of the city of Leyden, in the kingdom
. Pioneer history of the Holland purchase of western New York : embracing some account of the ancient remains ... and a history of pioneer settlement under the auspices of the Holland company; including reminiscences of the war of 1812; the origin, progress and completion of the Erie canal, etc., etc., OF , ElNOiCOTT a CO C. G. CREHEN. ^ocSo ^^I^IDII^IEIISSIP, HOLLAND PURCHASE. 429 JOHN J. VANDER KEMP. This gentleman was the successor of Mr. Busti, entering uponthe duties of general agent on the day of the death of his prede-cessor. He is a native of the city of Leyden, in the kingdom ofHolland. His parents emigrated to the United States in 1788, andsettled upon the Hudson, near Esopus, Kingston, Ulster county,New York. In 1794 the family changed their residence to theshores of Oneida lake, and soon after, to Oldenbarnevelt, in thetown of Trenton, now Oneida county, where they enjoyed thesociety of Col. A. G. Mappas family who were likewise emigrantsfrom Holland, and of Mr. Gerrit Boon, who had commenced asettlement on the lands of the Company in the then county of Her-kimer, simultaneously with the commencement of another settle-ment about forty-five miles above Utica, by Col. John Linklaen,late of Cazenovia, Madison county. Col. Mappa having succeededMr. Boon in the land agency, Mr. Vander Kemp, early in life,ente
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