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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 90045, member: 4381&quot;]Your correect but I said the oldest with direct lineage to the US.&nbsp; Flordia and St Augustine was a Spanish fort and Florida was not one of the 13 original states.&nbsp; In fact, it was stolen by Andrew Jackson as my memory serves me.&nbsp; So, there was Jamestown, Plymouth, and strangly enough, Brooklyn.&nbsp; However it seems pretty clear that the Walloons settled Brooklyn even prior to the 1636 date which is recorded for dutch settlers to have set roots near gwonas.&nbsp; It was discovered and first explored in 1609 with Henry Hudson.&nbsp; But evidence showss that Walloons where already established even at this time, which puts them in direct competition with James Town (settled in 1609) <a href="http://www.apva.org/finding/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.apva.org/finding/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.apva.org/finding/index.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Of course the Mayflower was destined to land there (probably with understanding of current settlements) but stayed north away from Dutch claims.</p><p><br /></p><p>The main activitivy of the dutch and the Walloons was smuggling <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I need to ask my Friend Arther about coins he might have uncovered in his digging.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Ah - like they never have any input into writing those laws!&nbsp; Have you ever been to Philedelphia.&nbsp; Those people are rabid!</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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