Download or read book The Journals of Nicholas Cresswell written by Nicholas Cresswell and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasper Danckaerts was the founder of a colony of Labadists along the Bohemia River, located in the present US state of Maryland. The narrative of his journey in 1679 and 1680 offers a description of the landscape and the lifestyle of inhabitants of the region in the late 17th century. The diary is one of the earliest description of the region that had been part of New Netherland, now New York, New Jersey and Delaware.