Balthazar de Moucheron

Balthazar de Moucheron (1552–1630) was a Dutch trader, ship owner, and one of the founders of the Dutch East India Company, but never participated as he went bankrupt in the same year. He is known for his early trading with India (Calcutta) and Indonesia, America,^[1] the west coast of Africa, the Baltic Sea , and the White Sea (Archangelsk).

^ Uit het Registre van de Besoignee van de gemeyne saecken der cooplieden tracerende op Spaengien ende andere plaetsen Westwaerts tsindts den jare 1581, fol. 15 en A.A.B. Deel 32, blz. 22. Archived 2004-12-25 at the Wayback Machine in the city archives of Antwerp it stated that he was one of the advocates of founding a trading company for the trade-in what is now America in 1583, which didn't happen at that time

[auto1-1] Uit het Registre van de Besoignee van de gemeyne saecken der cooplieden tracerende op Spaengien ende andere plaetsen Westwaerts tsindts den jare 1581, fol. 15 en A.A.B. Deel 32, blz. 22. Archived 2004-12-25 at the Wayback Machine in the city archives of Antwerp it stated that he was one of the advocates of founding a trading company for the trade-in what is now America in 1583, which didn't happen at that time

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