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The West Indian Company, Limited (WICO) is a formerly private company in the United States Virgin Islands, now owned by the Public Finance Authority of the U.S.V.I.It was founded in 1912 in Denmark, and operated for most of its history as a subsidiary of the East Asiatic Company.
The Dutch West India Company (Dutch: Geoctrooieerde Westindische Compagnie) was a Dutch chartered company that was founded in 1621 and went defunct in 1792. Among its founders were Reynier Pauw, Willem Usselincx (1567–1647), and Jessé de Forest (1576–1624). [1]
The Charter of Freedoms and Exemptions, [2] sometimes referred to as the Charter of Privileges and Exemptions, [3] is a document written by the Dutch West India Company in an effort to settle its colony of New Netherland in North America through the establishment of feudal patroonships purchased and supplied by members of the West India Company ...
West India Company may refer to: Danish West India Company , (1659–1776), Danish-Norwegian chartered company, also active in the slave trade Dutch West India Company aka GWC or WIC (1621–1792), Dutch chartered company, with jurisdiction over slave-trade in the Atlantic, Brazil, the Caribbean, and North America
The Economic Policies of the Dutch West India Company in New Netherland 1633–1639 (1969). Balmer, Randall H. "The Social Roots of Dutch Pietism in the Middle Colonies," Church History Volume: 53. Issue: 2. 1984. pp 187+ online edition; Barnouw, A.J. "The Settlement of New Netherland," in A.C. Flick ed., History of the State of New York (10 ...
"West Indies" or "West India" was a part of the names of several companies of the 17th and 18th centuries, including the Danish West India Company, the Dutch West India Company, the French West India Company, and the Swedish West India Company. [15] West Indian is the official term used by the U.S. government to refer to people of the West ...
Colonists of a patroonship were limited by the West India Company in some instances. For example, fur trading was illegal for colonists; it was reserved as a Company monopoly. But, patroonships had the right to trade anywhere from Newfoundland to Florida , on the understanding that traders were to stop at Manhattan to possibly trade there first.
In reference to their destination, these ships were known as the West Indies Mail Steamers. [10] The West Indian Mail Service was established by the sailing of the first Royal Mail Steam Packet, PS Thames from Falmouth on 1 January 1841. A Supplemental Royal Charter was granted on 30 August 1851 extending the sphere of the Company's operations.