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On January 27, r8r6, the new Governor General of the Curaçao islands, Albert Kikkert, arrived with his staff aboard the Prince of Orange, a Dutch man-of-war. Having been Willemstad’s harbor commander from 1795 to r800 and married to the daughter of a prominent Curaçao family, his was a well-known figure to the local inhabitants. In addition, Kikkert’s grasp of insular affairs had few equals.
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© 1979 Martinus Nijhoff, Publishers bv, The Hague
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Goslinga, C.C. (1979). The Curaçao Islands in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. In: A Short History of the Netherlands Antilles and Surinam. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9289-4_18
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