The Dutch, using mercenary forces recruited from the people of Java, intervened in succession disputes in return for grants of land.

they found a bay which lead the dutch to discovering New York.

The Dutch painter and etcher Rembrandt painted the painting "The Return of the Prodigal Son" and it portrays the younger son kneeling before his father asking for forgiveness.

It's from Anglo-saxon meaning ploughman a person who looked after a lords land in return for their own tenement.

It can also be Dutch.

The Dutch land grant system was a government program that gifted land to individual people. These land gifts were usually in return for services to the government. Land grants were also used as incentives for people to develop unused land.