Hotels Elms and Bardin, New City, NY Courtesy of the Historical Society of Rockland County, New City, NY. Throughout its history New City's primary business has been as a home to governments of Rockland County and the town of Clarkstown.
First Pacific voyage. Abel Tasman was born in 1603 in Lutjegast in what is now the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. In 1633, Tasman went to Batavia in service of the VOC; four years later he was back in Amsterdam.Tasman signed on for another ten years and took his wife along to Batavia.n 1639 Tasman was sent as second in command of an exploring expedition in the north Pacific under Matthijs Quast. His fleet included the ships Engel and Gracht and reached Fort Zeelandia (Dutch Formosa) and Deshima.
1 In New Zealand, Maori are tangata whenua, people of the land; pakeha, the whites, or visitors, are their other. 2  The ISA favours ancestral connection as a âgivenâ, requiring proof only for its boundaries, and given the cultural context of maori as tangata whenua, this is fair enough. The ISA favours ancestral connection as a âgivenâ, requiring proof only for its boundaries, and given the cultural context of maori as tangata whenua, this is fair enough.