Samuel Blommaert [SEP] date of birth
Samuel Blommaert
Samuel Blommaert ("Bloemaert", "Blommaerts", "Blommaart", "Blomert", etc.) (11 or 21 August 1583 in Antwerp – 23 December 1651 in Amsterdam ) was a Flemish/Dutch merchant and director of the Dutch West India Company from 1622 to 1629 and again from 1636 to 1642. In the latter period he was a paid commissioner of Sweden in the Netherlands and he played a dubious but key role in Pierre Minuit's expedition that led to the Swedish colonizing of New
married the admiral Isaac Sweers.
Early career.
Blommaert was involved in a company which traded on Angola, together with Frans Jacobsz. Hinlopen, and Lucas van der Venne. 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. Blommaert was investigated in Amsterdam by the board of the East-India Company on January 30, 1616 about a vessel, named "Mauritius