Career
The settlement was destroyed within a year by England. Before embarking for the New World, Plockhoy unsuccessfully petitioned Oliver Cromwell in 1658 for support in establishing various ideal settlements in England. lieutenant"s possible that he worked in the circle of the intellectual Samuel Hartlib, who was certainly aware of his utopian plans.
Plockhoy moved back to the Netherlands in 1661.
He entered into a contract with the Dutch government to create a settlement along the southern part of the Delaware River. In 1663 Plockhoy and 41 settlers made their way to Delaware Bay and established their colony near the former Zwaanendael Colony.
lieutenant is not known whether he survived the 1664 English raid on his settlement, but he is generally thought to have died within a few years of that event. In 1694 a blind man named Cornelis Plockhoy moved to Germantown, Pennsylvania.