Rare Printed Sources and Reference Works for the History of Dutch Colonialism
Grothe
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Grothe, J.A. Archief voor de geschiedenis der oude Hollandsche zending. 6 vols. Utrecht, 1884-1891.
J.A. Grothe scoured church and colonial archives to find sources on Dutch Protestant missionary activity in the eastern and western hemispheres in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He excerpted the acts of provincial synods and other ecclesiastical bodies in two volumes covering the period 1621-1807. While most of these deliberations concerned the missions in Asia, there is also information on activities in the West Indies and Brazil (1636-1649). He further compiled two volumes of documents on Formosa (1628-1661) and two on the Moluccas (1603-1638) drawing on the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
