Claes Martensen van Rosenvelt person
also: Claes, klaus
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“All right, the first Roosevelt to hit the American shores is a Claes Martensen van Rosenvelt. Got here in 1626. Or, sorry, he was born in 1626, arrived in New Amsterdam around 1640. Colonel, where's New Amsterdam? That's Manhattan. Yeah. Ho…”
▶ The Shadow State 55 The Delano and Roosevelt Bloodlines @ 46:20
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▶ 46:20
All right, the first Roosevelt to hit the American shores is a Claes Martensen van Rosenvelt. Got here in 1626. Or, sorry, he was born in 1626, arrived in New Amsterdam around 1640. Colonel, where's New Amsterdam? That's Manhattan. Yeah. Ho…
▶ 48:02
1900. So the Dutch probably ended up better off. Perhaps, but I don't know Manhattan. Well, I guess the point you're making is the British didn't hold on to Manhattan. So that's, I get it. Yeah. That'd be an interesting economic calculation…
▶ 48:32
His previous land is the site of the Empire State Building. And if you know New York City, this is pretty much Lexington and 5th bounded by 29th and 35th Street. So some of the most valuable real estate in the world. And this family bought …
▶ 49:05
was the first to spell oh do i have a picture of klaus i think i do miraculously there's a painting of him that is the dutch patriarch of the van rosenvelts then we have a son nicholas who changes the name to um roosevelt anglicizes it and …