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The New Hampshire Gazette And Historical Chronicle
Portsmouth, Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Jan Van Loon, president of the Dutch West India Company in Amsterdam, died last week in terror over a British remonstrance presented October 7, 1762, demanding over 200,000 pounds from the company for injured British subjects in Surinam, alarming members fearing reprisals.
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Mynheer Jan Van Loon, who died last week at Amsterdam in a very advanced age, was so much terrified at the English remonstrance to the information of the Directors of the Society of Surinam, presented the 7th of October 1762, to their High Mightinesses, upon the Memorial of Sir Joseph Yorke, that it precipitated his death.
That Gentleman was President and eldest Director of the West India Company of the Chamber at Amsterdam; and as a demand of more than 200,000 l. sterling has been made upon that Company, by some injured British subjects, all the Members of that company are prodigiously alarmed, for fear letters of reprisal should be granted against them.
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Amsterdam
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7th Of October 1762
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death of jan van loon; demand of more than 200,000 l. sterling; alarm among company members fearing letters of reprisal
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Mynheer Jan Van Loon died last week at Amsterdam, terrified by the English remonstrance presented to the Directors of the Society of Surinam on October 7, 1762, to their High Mightinesses based on Sir Joseph Yorke's memorial; he was President and eldest Director of the West India Company at Amsterdam; a demand exceeding 200,000 pounds sterling made by injured British subjects has alarmed the company fearing reprisals.