Jacob Eelkens

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Jacob Eelkens or Jaques Elekes (Netherlands), was the first leader of Fort Nassau, built in 1614 on Castle Island near what is now Albany, New York. Later he became Commissary of Fort Orange.

By 1628 Eelkens had been dismissed by the West India Company from this post for illegal trading, and had entered the service of some London merchants, in whose behalf he had come to buy furs on Henry Hudson’s River.

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