A ship named the Nigtevecht was a Dutch East India Company (VOC). Sadly, no old painting of this merchant vessel survives; it must have been very impressive. They also found an ancient logboat from 700–600 BCE in Nigtevecht. A pre-Roman era shipwreck (logboat) near the modern village has been cataloged under the name Nigtevecht. The merchants of the VOC had large houses and much land in the area of Nigtevecht, they represented the great wealth in Holland under control of a Republic, before the United Kingdom raised in power. Nevertheless, the House of Orange fullly controlled the VOC. The VOC period was the era where also Prince William III became King of England,
