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Berbice was settled in 1627 by the Dutchman Abraham Van Pere . A few years later Suriname was settled by Lord Willoughby and Lawrence Hyde under a grant from the English King, Charles II . In the beginning, therefore, Suriname was a British and Berbice a Dutch possession.


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