Document: Letter from director Stuyvesant to the vice-director of Curaçao

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NYSA_A1810-78_V13_0070

Description

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to the vice-director of Curaçao; severe drought on that island; harbor of New Amsterdam filled with floating ice; arrival of negroes; their price; to be employed against the Indians; horses required; death of vice-director Alrichs.

Document Date

1660-02-17

Document Date (Date Type)

1660-02-17

Document Type

Letter

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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.