Document: Letter from the Directors in Amsterdam to the Director General and Council

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V12_70

Description

Amsterdam. Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant, with list of emigrants to New Netherland. [1657]

Document Date

1657-12-28

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-12-28

Document Type

Letter

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Letter

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Translation

The 28th of December 1657.

Honorable, Prudent, Beloved, Faithful.

Whereas we have sent off our general letters and attachments with the ships St. Jan and Gulden Otter, this shall only serve to cover the accompanying manifests and lists of private goods and persons[1] loaded on board and going over in the ship the Vergulde Beer, upon whose unloading it is recommended that your honors keep close watch so that the Company is not diminished in its recognition fees or that the Indians, their enemies, do not come to be armed, to their detriment. Whereupon we rely,

Honorable, Prudent, Beloved, Faithful, and commending your honors to God's protection, we remainYour good friends.By order of the lords directors of the West India Company, chamber of Amsterdam,

Amsterdam, the28th of December 1657.

[ ADDRESSED: ]

To the director general and councilors in New Netherland

[ REVERSE: ]

By the ship the Beer.

Ab. de Decker de Jonge

Translation Superscripts

[1]: List does not exist.

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_V12_70.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.