Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy [SEP] date of birth
Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy
Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy (also Pieter Cornelisz Plockhoy van Zierikzee or Peter Cornelius van Zurick-zee; c. 1625, possibly in Zierikzee, Netherlands – c. 1664–1670, Lewes, Delaware) was a Dutch Mennonite and Collegiant utopist who founded a settlement in 1663 near "Horekill" (Lewes Creek) on the banks of "Godyn's Bay" (Delaware Bay), near present-day Lewes, Delaware. The settlement was destroyed within a year by England.
Almost nothing is known of Plockhoy's childhood
" and be controlled by the people, not the regent oligarchy. Van den Ende acknowledged only two writers that had preceded him with such ideas to his knowledge: Johan de la Court (Pieter's brother with his "Consideratiën van Staat" of 1660), and Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy, whose English-language pamphlet "A way propounded to make the poor in these and other nations happy" (published in London in 1659) also took aristocrats and priests to task. Plockhoy and Van den Ende first tried to implement their