Document: Letter from the directors at Amsterdam to Director General Petrus Stuyvesant

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V11_31

Description

Amsterdam. Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant, with letters, invoices and other papers, left behind by sailing vessels.

Document Date

1651-04-01

Document Date (Date Type)

1651-04-01

Document Type

Letter

Document Type Unlinked

Letter

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Translation

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[ ] untimely departure [ ] supracargo Niclaes [ ] these accompanying detailed letters [ ] could be sent by the ship de Bontekoe , skippered by Willem Thomasz, [ ] sailed from Texel [ ] days, and because it could easily happen, not knowing the whereabouts of the aforesaid ship de Bontekoe, which only had a few hours of favorable wind while running out, so that this ship, de Gelderse Bloem, or 't Hof van Cleef, skippered by Adriaen Bloemart, may arrive sooner in New Netherland; therefore, I have sent copies in both of them, or in short, signed letters and bills of lading of de Bontekoe for your honor's information. All further communications are going with het Hof van Cleef, which your honor might gladly receive, if it arrives first, and shall learn about great secret turn of events. Done at Amsterdam, this April 1, 1651.

Q. P. van Seventer

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_31.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.