Van Braam Houckgeest, André Everard, 1739-1801

found: His Voyage de l'ambassade de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales Hollandaises, vers l'empereur de la Chine, dans les années 1794 & 1795, 1797:t.p. (André Everard van Braam Houckgeest, chef de la direction de la Compagne des Indes Orientales Hollandaises a la Chine, & second dans cette ambassade)

found: American Antiquarian Soc. Proceedings, n.s., v. 40:p. 159, etc. ("Van Braam Houckgeest, an early American collector"; André Everard Van Braam Houckgeest; M. Van Braam; Van Braam; b. in Holland Nov. 1, 1739; lived in China 1758-73; in Holland 1773-83; Dutch consul, merchant, and rice cultivator at Charleston, S.C., 1783-88; naturalized as an Amer. citizen in 1784; commercial director for the Dutch East India Co. in China, 1788-94, and its ambassador to the emperor of China 1794-5; settled at his home "China Retreat" in Bristol, Pa. in 1796; returned to Holland in 1801, where he d. Nov. 1801)

found: MWA/NAIP files(hdg.: Van Braam Houckgeest, André Everard, 1739-1801; usage: André Everard van Braam Houckgeest; A.E. van Braam Houckgeest; note: works published primarily in French and English; indexed in Amer. refs. under surname Van Braam Houckgeest)

found: The first VBH, c1993-:t.p. (Andreas Everardus van Braam Houckgeest) foreword (prior to his marriage in 1763, he added the name Houckgeest to his birthright surname of van Braam)