Document: Letter from Director Stuyvesant to Richard Bennet, Governor of Virginia

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_82

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New Amsterdam. Letter. Director Stuyvesant to Richard Bennet, governor of Virginia, recommending Augustyn Heermans to his courtesy.

Document Date

1653-05-30

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1653-05-30

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Translation

[1] [ Honoured Sir ]

[ This day forthnight ower Agents went out, but through Cont ]rarie winds and weather brought [ them bake againe to ] ower Sorrow, and as wee doe feare to y[ our greate hinderance ] in other waighty affayres, in the meane thym [ one off ower Sub ]jects here by name Augustine Heermans des[ ired these few ] lines in recomendation, for to obtayne your Hon[ ors ayde and ] Justice iff need should require against Mr. E[ dw. Scarburgh ] his debtor, for somme quantitie off tobacco, the wi[ tch the ] least yeare was arrested under Master Scarburghs [ hande, by ] one Charles Gabry marchant off Amsterdam, it is [ soo that ] the said Gabry lefft here his attorney, videl[ icet Pau ]lus Leendersen the witch is now Satisfyed in wha[ t his ] Principal!could demante, as by the discharge un[ der ] the sayde Paulus Leenderssens hand may appeare, I doe therefore request in the behalfe off the said [ Mr. ] Augustine Herrman, that hee accordinge to Justice may obtaine what is due unto him, what Cou[ rte ]sie or Service you Please to Command mee you sh[ all ] fynde mee readye in all lawfull Possibilitie,

to beeYour Honnors Servant,

New Amsterdam30th May Anno 1653.

Suppr. Script.To the Hounoured Ritchard Bennet esquier and Governor off Virginia.

Recordatum Tricesimo die January 1654.Teste Edm. Mathews Clerke Comit. Northton.Virginnia.

P. Stuyvesant

Translation Superscripts

[1]: Partly recovered from NYCD, 14:205

References

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

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1810/NYSA_A1810-78_V11_82.xml

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.