Samuel Blommaert was an Amsterdam merchant of the 17th century.
He was a director of the Dutch West India Company. Later he assisted
with the fitting out of the first Swedish expedition to New Sweden in 1637
and engaged Peter Minuit to command it.
Blommaert's letters to the Swedish chancellor, Count Axel Oxenstierna, thirty-eight in number, 1635-1641, letters of great importance to the history
of New Sweden, were published in the Bijdragen en Mededeelingen of
the Utrecht Historical Society, vol. XXIX.
Sources
- Project Gutenberg Narrative New Netherland, by J.F. Jameson, Ed - http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext02/nwnth10.txt - includes a footnote about Blommaert.
