Adam Gerard Mappa
Adam Gerard Mappa | |
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Born | Tournai | 25 November 1754
Died | 15 April 1828 Barneveld, New York | (aged 73)
Allegiance | Netherlands |
Service/ | Militia |
Rank | Colonel |
Battles/wars | Democratizing the vroedschap of Utrecht |
Other work | Agent for the Holland Land Company in New York |
Adam Gerard Mappa (
Life
Around 1786 Adam Gerard Mappa became the commander of a flying army unit, consisting of 300 men and 200 horses, that played a role in democratizing the
With a few friends, like Johan Valckenaer and Herman Willem Daendels he rented an uninhabited castle in Watten. This community, growing its own vegetables, playing billiards and discussing the revolution has been described by Gerrit Paape.[7] On the eve of a condemnation, Antje Mappa-Paspoort (a great friend of Emilie Luzac), travelled hurriedly and secretly to Delft, when her husband decided to emigrate to the US, and it is said on the advice of Thomas Jefferson he took his type foundry with him.[1]
On 1 December 1789, he arrived with his wife and children to New York and they were granted accommodation with John Adams on Richmond Hill. Mappa became the New York City's very first type-manufacturer (on 22 Greenwich Street, Manhattan) but, even though he could produce Oriental letters, the business was not a success.[8] In 1794, he took over from Gerrit Boon an appointment as agent of the Holland Land Company in Trenton. His best friend François Adriaan van der Kemp, whom Mappa once called a hermit,[9] came to live in the town's surroundings on a farm. Mappa had a new house, built around 1810 and paid by the Company,[10] in the Georgian style, and "Mappa Hall" still exists.[3] In 1818 he bought 34,000 unsold acres from the Holland Land Company. Mappa Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[11]
Mappa corresponded with
References
- ^ a b Kernkamp, P.M. (2005) "Tussen Reformatie en Revolutie. De familie Paspoort te Delft". In: "De Nederlandsche Leeuw" jg. 122 nr. 1.
- ^ Schama, S. (1977) Patriots and Liberators. Revolution in the Netherlands 1780–1830, p. 118.
- ^ a b an autobiography, together with extracts from his correspondence; (1903)
- ^ Roosendaal, J. (2003) Bataven! Nederlandse vluchtelingen in Frankrijk 1787–1795, p. 41.
- ^ Schama, S. (1977) Patriots and Liberators. Revolution in the Netherlands 1780–1830, p. 111, 118.
- ^ Schama, S. (1977) Patriots and Liberators. Revolution in the Netherlands 1780–1830, p. 130.
- ^ Roosendaal, J. (2003) Bataven! Nederlandse vluchtelingen in Frankrijk 1787–1795, p. 64, 172–173.
- ^ "Foundries from the 18th century". Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 29 August 2007..,
- ^ Roosendaal, J. (2003) Bataven! Nederlandse vluchtelingen in Frankrijk 1787–1795, p. 62.
- ^ Ligtenberg, L. (1999) De nieuwe wereld van Peter Stuyvesant. Nederlandse voetsporen in de Verenigde Staten, p. 105.
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 13 March 2009.
Bibliography
- Fairchild, Helen L. (1903) Francis Adrian van der Kemp, 1752-1829 NY: G.P. Putnam's sons.
- Fijnje-Luzac, E. Myne beslommerde boedel; brieven in ballingschap 1787–1788. Ed. Jacques J.M. Baartmans 2003.