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4  TEXT Date of Import: 14 Jan 2004


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Also Known As:<_AKA> Augustine Herman Bohemiensis
His father was a member of the Council of Prague and a wealthy
merchant, his mother was of a patrician family of Bohemia. He was
well educated, spoke 6 languages, was an artist, surveyor and
map maker. His father was outlawed for signing a protestant memorial
to the Emperor of Germany in 1618, resulting in their exile to
Amsterdam. In 1633 he came to America in the employ of the Dutch West
India Company, whereupon he gained wealth and influence as a banker
and lawyer in New Amsterdam. He rose to become a member of the "Board
of Nine Men" organized in 1647, which office he held for several years
until he became antagonistic with Peter Stuyvesant and was imprisoned
for a short time. He gained favor with Governor Philip Calvert, and
in 1659 was commissioned to survey the boundaries of Maryland and the
Dutch colony. In exchange for mapping this area he was granted 20,000
acres in Maryland and granted the English title of Lord of the Manor.
Later he was given an additional 10,000 acres and English citizenship.
The lady of Bohemia was Jane Varleth, daughter of Casper and Judith
Varleth and sister of Nicholas Varleth, who for his second wife
married Anna Stuyvesant, sister of of the hard-headed peter, Governor
of New Amsterdam. Augustine Herman's map is currently on display in
the British Museum in London in four folio sheets with a portrait of
him drawn by himself.