The pioneers of New Netherland and New Sweden
1) General facts about the two colonies in North America
2) People involved in the colonization of New Netherland
A Frenchman called Georges Rapaille (with a few errors in the online biography)
A Walloon called Jessé de Forest (born in the north of current France)
A Walloon called Philippe Dutrieux (born in the north of current France)
A French admiral named François Joseph Paul de Grasse (who adopted a Bengali boy)
His adoptive coloured grandson John van Salee de Grasse (the Bengali boy’s son)
3) People involved in the colonization of New Sweden
A Walloon called Louis de Geer (the first industrialist in Sweden)
A Walloon called Pierre Minuit (a former governor of New Netherland)
A Swedish bishop of Skara called Jesper Swedberg (helping the Lutherans in Delaware)