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16 years before the Mayflower…Pole had reached America’s shores

 | March 25, 2012 7:37 am

For quite  some time the story of Jan z Kolna has circulated within the Polish American community.
A Polish seafarer  in the service of the King of Denmark, he was said to have piloted a fleet of Danish ships which had set sail from Copenhagen and reached the coast of what is now Labrador, Canada in 1476.

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