Willem Willink

Share issued by Hope & Co. in 1804 to finance the Louisiana Purchase

Willem Willink (sometimes Wilhelm, Wilheim, or Wilhem) (1750 – 1841) was a wealthy Amsterdam merchant, and one of the investors in the Holland Land Company,[1][2] and the Louisiana Purchase.

  1. ^ Evans, Paul D (1924). The Holland Land Company. Buffalo Historical Society Publications.
  2. ^ Historical sketch of the Village of Gowanda, N.Y. in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of its incorporation, August 8, 1898. Buffalo, NY: The Matthews-Northrup Company, Leonard, I.R., Reprinted 1998, Salem, MA: Higginson Book Company.

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