Research Request:  Wampum Value 1627, Isaac de Rassiers, William Bradford

Address Line 1:  Nieuw Nederlandt, Fort Nieuw Amsterdam, Fort Orenia

Address Line 2: Aptuxet Trading Post, New Plymouth Plantations

Specific Type of Information Required:  I would like to know the value of wampum in 1627 per the Secretary of New Netherlands Isaac de Rassiers trade at New Plymouth Plantations with Governor of New Plymouth Platations William Bradford, what was traded, what the value is in 1627 and how this value relates to 2007, which is 380 years later now.

Time Frame:  1627 to 2007

Other information pertinent to your request:
There also is a 11 page letter written in Dutch in 1627 Isaac de Rassiers sent to the United Netherlands across the ocean in Europe to either the directors of the East or West India Company in Holland, United Netherlands and want more information on this letter. I once saw a copy of this at the Pilgrim Hall in Plymouth. I also would like information when this was Freetown and before this was freetown on on wampum trading going on at the land now called Fall River in terms of dutch, french, english, indigenous, and other nationalities trade in particular currency and commodity valuations of the timeframe 1627.

Date of Birth:  12-27-1973

Place of Birth:  Taunton, MA

Date of Marriage:  None

Spouse:  None

Children:  None

Sources (if any) you have already searched for this information:
Pilgrim Hall - Plymouth, Plymouth, MA (2007)
Plimoth Plantation - Plymouth, Plymouth, MA (2007)
Raynham Historical Society - Raynham, Bristol, MA (2007)
Old Colony Historical Society - Taunton, Bristol, MA (2007)
Fall River Historical Society - Fall River, Bristol, MA (1997)
New Netherlands Project (2006)
Notre Dame Numismatics Department (2005)
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (2006)
Massachusetts Bay Company-Colony General Court Minutes (2006)
Connecticut River Company-Colony General Court Minutes (2005)
Rhode Island Company-Colony General Court Minutes (2004)
Roger Williams National Park Providence (2005)
Massachusetts State House Beacon Hill Boston (2006)
Narragansett Indian Tribe Crandall Farm Commercial Powwow - Westerly, Washington, Rhode Island (1997)
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Library (1998)
6 Nations Indian Reservation Indigenous (2003)
Iroqrafts Ohsweken, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (2003)
Peabody Museum at Yale University (2005)
Peabody Museum at the President and Fellows of Harvard College (2006)
The New York Stock Exchange Wall Street Manhattan Manhattan New York New York (2004)
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology Brown University (1997)
Freeman Family Archives and Library (1992)

Proceed  to Researcher of the Fall River Historical Society Rock Street Fall River Bristol MA at www.LizzieBorden.org published at www.JoshFreeman.org

Submitted - Published

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 11:33am

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Updated 10-9-2007  M