Document: Letter from director Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V15_0121

Description

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; receipt of documents mentioned (supra, p. 110); New Utrecht; Palatines on Staten Island; block houses to defend the narrows; hostile proceeding of John Scott and Connecticut instigated from England; English purchase land at the Newesinghs; folly of resisting the English on Long Island; agreement with John Scott; description of emigrants from Holland; affairs at Esopus; map of Coney Island; revenue.

Document Date

1664-04-26

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-04-26

Document Type

Letter

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Letter

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Translation

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source:New York State Archives. New York (Colony). Council. Dutch colonial administrative correspondence, 1646-1664. Series A1810-78. Volume 15.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

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Published bound volume is also available: Translated in: Correspondence, 1647-1653, trans. and ed. Charles T. Gehring ("New Netherland Documents Series") (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.