Document: Letter from director Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V15_0131

Description

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; encroachments of Connecticut; Bronck's and Van der Donck's lands; Long Island; effect of the States-General's letters; menacing aspect of England; trade of Virginia, Maryland and Barbadoes; benefits to be derived from emigration; Mr. de Decker's embassy to Virginia; arrival and sale of slaves.

Document Date

1664-06-10

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-06-10

Document Type

Letter

Document Type Unlinked

Letter

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Translation

References

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

Translation link see: None

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.