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== History ==
The Jonkman corporation or as it was known when it was founded “'''Jonkman Handelhuizen'''” or Jonkman merchant houses, was first established by Cornelis Petrus Jonkman in late 1691 when Cornelis was just 16. He founded the company after he found that there was a hole as the WIC did not have any services for selling and buying goods from the many frontier towns west of the coast. Seeing this opportunity young Cornelis loaned money from his parents to buy a horse and cart. With this, he began traveling from frontier town to frontier town and buying their goods, selling them in the coastal cities and then buying goods there to sell them to the frontier towns. It turned out this was a very profitable industry and by 1711 Jonkman Handelhuizen had 20 Handelshuizen through the colony of Nieuw Nederlandt and had a network of trade outposts, and even a few ships of its own to buy and sell goods directly to and from far lands.
Through the early 1700s, the company continued to expand its operations and wealth slowly, outlasting those companies that rose quickly but fell just as quickly. When the grandson of Cornelis, Petrus, took over in 1743 the company had its headquarters in Nieuw Amsterdam a large factory where they stored their goods that they would sell to the frontier towns. It was with Petrus that the company began to invest in the ever-growing and developing frontier towns and gained a reputation as a fair merchant company that was not like the power-hungry Patronen and through its investment into the community it solidified itself amongst many of the more inland towns and communities. In 1789 the company by now being one of the largest trading companies of Nieuw Nederlandt made its first steps in diversifying, it bought various shipping companies and their trade outposts thus giving it direct access to products coming in from Latin America and Asia marking its first step into the global market.
19th century
== Financial performance ==
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