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.
Morris Gleitzman. Morris Gleitzman, born in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, on January 9th 1953 (age 60) is a famous Australian author (although born in England).e grew up in England but immigrated to Australia in 1969. He has written many books from books for younger readers (two weeks with the queen) to books for older readers (adults only). In his life (as of may 24th 2011) he has written 32 successfully published books.