Consequently, in 1615 Isaac Le Maire and Samuel Blommaert, assisted by others, focused on finding a south-westerly route around the Tierra del Fuego, in order to circumvent the monopoly of the VOC.

The settlers Albert Burgh, Samuel Blommaert, Samuel Godijn, Johannes de Laet had little success with populating the colony of the New Netherland, and to defend themselves against local Indians.

A Dutchman, Samuel Blommaert, assisted the fitting-out and appointed Peter Minuit to lead the expedition.

In 1636 or 1637, Minuit made arrangements with Samuel Blommaert and the Swedish government to create the first Swedish colony in the New World.

Samuel Blommaert ( Bloemaert, Blommaerts, Blommaart, Blomert, etc.

In 1615 Jacob le Maire carried a letter from his father to be presented to Governor Reynst, with an offer to carry ( smuggle ) goods to his son-in-law Samuel Blommaert in Amsterdam.

After the arrival-organized by the Dutch merchant Samuel Blommaert ( 1583 – 1651 or 1654 )-of the first European settlers, the area became farmland.

Samuel Blommaert, a Flemish director of the Dutch West India Company who had grown frustrated with the company's policies assisted the fitting-out The expedition was led, and had been instigated by Peter Minuit, the founding governor of New Netherland who had been dismissed by the Dutch West India Company which operated the colony as a concession.

* Zwaanendael ( Delaware Bay )-Samuel Blommaert and Samuel Godyn, abandoned after being decimated by indigenous population

At Ramah, Samuel secretly anoints Saul, after having met him for the first time, while Saul was looking for his father's lost donkeys, and treated him to a meal.

While held by Epps, in 1852 Northup secretly befriended Samuel Bass, an itinerant Canadian carpenter working for Epps.

Horner's primary mistress Lady Fidget, spokeswoman for " the virtuous gang " of secretly sex-hungry town wives, was played by the dynamic Elizabeth Knepp, who Samuel Pepys declared " the most excellent, mad-humoured thing, and sings the noblest I've ever heard ", talents that the famous drinking scene in Horner's lodging seems designed to do justice to.

* In 1954, Israeli statesman and archaeologist Yigael Yadin met secretly with the Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Mar Samuel in the basement of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to negotiate the purchase of four Dead Sea Scrolls for Israel.

During Absalom's rebellion described in the Second Book of Samuel, he agrees to act as an advisor to Absalom to sabotage his plans while secretly sending information to David.

Later when the National Government called a General Election he tried to pull the Liberal Party out of it but succeeded in taking only a few followers, most of whom were related to him ; the main Liberal party remained in the coalition for a year longer, under the leadership of Sir Herbert Samuel.

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

Samuel had in fact originally tried to persuade The Royal Asiatic Society at Calcutta to publish the work, a fact alluded to obliquely in the preface to Noah's 1840 edition, but eventually Samuel sold the work to Noah for £ 150 pounds.

He died in Winchester gaol ; Samuel was tried in May, and executed on 4 June.

Samuel Worrall declared she was a beggar and should be taken to Bristol and tried for vagrancy.

The London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the day in 1665 that a barber had shaved his head and that he tried on his new periwig for the first time, but in a year of plague he was uneasy about wearing it :" 3rd September 1665: Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but darst not wear it because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it.

His father tried to direct Samuel towards a medical career.

His rival Samuel Reshevsky, while paying tribute to Keres ' talent, tried to pinpoint why Keres never became world champion, and also complimented his friendly personality.

He reported that Samuel Krafsur, an American NKVD agent code-named " IDE " who worked for TASS in the building that housed Stone ’ s office, had tried to " sound him out but BLIN did not react.

Samuel met with and tried to calm Arab representatives.

In 1800, judge Samuel Chase tried a local postmaster for embezzlement and sentenced him to thirty-nine lashes.

They appear to have been acquitted, for when in 1663 Sir Charles Sedley was tried for a gross breach of public decency in Covent Garden, Sackville, who had been one of the offenders, according to Samuel Pepys was asked by the Lord Chief Justice " whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance at that time, and that it would have more become him to have been at his prayers begging God's forgiveness than now running into such courses again.

Samuel even tried to capture Tarzan and his men mistaken Archimedes as him.

Enthusiastic and hard-working Ball had been able to secure film work briefly at the Samuel Goldwyn Studio and Columbia Pictures and then eventually at RKO Radio Pictures.

When Arnold arrived on the scene, Samuel Herrick had already been sent to Skenesboro and Asa Douglas to Panton with detachments to secure boats.

Although intended to secure InterNorth's independence, the HNG takeover proved a " wag-the-dog " transaction: despite an initial plan for dual headquarters in Omaha and Houston, with InterNorth CEO Samuel Segnar in control, the company soon was based entirely in Houston and run by HNG's CEO, Kenneth Lay, who renamed the company Enron Corporation.

George Leigh died unmarried in 1816, but not before endeavoring to secure his succession by recruiting Samuel E Leigh into the business.

Schuyler also supports the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York, because he hopes to secure himself a diplomatic position with the incoming administration that will enable him to return to Europe.

Francesco was doubtless aware of the motive which led Sozzini to quit Italy ; there is every reason to believe Samuel Przypkowski's statement that the grand-duke agreed to secure to him the income of his property so long as he published nothing in his own name.

Blackburn and his son Cary traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in September 1854 to secure an apprenticeship for Cary under noted physician Samuel D. Gross.

This failure to apply for a patent, despite the commercial participation of Boulton and Watt in this field, left the fledgling industry of gas production and lighting open for exploitation by other commercial interests, such as his former assistant Samuel Clegg and Friedrich Winzer.

Samuel Allerton also owned the land which later became the Robert Allerton Park, farther west in the Monticello, Illinois area ; Robert was Samuel's son who oversaw his father's agricultural interests in Illinois.

After Dr. Allard Flagg's death in 1901, his daughter sold Wachesaw and the Hermitage to Samuel Sidney Fraser, a real estate speculator, who bought and sold interests in several old plantations after the Civil War.

Drawing on the work of Thomas Samuel Kuhn, especially his Structure of Scientific Revolutions ( 1962 ), history and philosophy of science united scholars in both disciplines who shared interests in not only the history of science, but also its philosophical underpinnings.

Samuel lost his seat in the election of 1918 and became a candidate to represent British interests in the territory.

As High Commissioner, Samuel attempted to mediate between Zionist and Arab interests, acting to slow Jewish immigration and win the confidence of the Arab population.

While the Continental Congress did not allow a seat for Vermont, William Samuel Johnson, representing Connecticut, was engaged by Vermont to promote its interests.

Samuel Insull also had interests in broadcasting.

Josiah and his brother Thomas gave their friend Samuel Taylor Coleridge a life annuity of £ 150, with the goal of freeing Coleridge from financial worries and the need to support himself by noncreative work, so that he could pursue his literary and philosophical interests.

The firm represented corporate and railroad interests, and Clarke soon demonstrated his worth, replacing senior partner Samuel W. Williamson as the general counsel for the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad.

Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. ( born November 8, 1927 ), nicknamed Si Newhouse, is the chairman and CEO of Advance Publications, which, among other interests, owns Condé Nast, publisher of many marquee brands in the world of magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker.

Samuel Standfield Wagstaff, Jr. is an American mathematician and computer scientist whose research interests are in the areas of cryptography, parallel computation, and analysis of algorithms, especially number theoretic algorithms.

As a man, Mar Samuel was distinguished for his modesty, gentleness, and unselfishness, being always ready to subordinate his own interests to those of the community.

The label began in 2000 to fulfill the more dancefloor-oriented interests of founder Samuel Valenti IV, and early singles included artists like Kenneth Graham, Osborne and James T. Cotton ( aka Dabrye, Tadd Mullinix ).