Document: Letter from the directors in Amsterdam to Petrus Stuyvesant

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_12

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Amsterdam. Letter. Directors at Amsterdam to director Stuyvesant; ship Princess lost, with 81 souls, including ex-director Kieft, rev. Mr. Bogardus, and fiscal Van der Hoyckens; lenient policy towards the Indians recommended; New Netherland under the chamber at Amsterdam exclusively; New Netherland vessels to trade to Brazil and Angola, and return with negroes; disorders in the church; rev. Mr. Backer; rev. Mr. Megapolensis; Forrester, governor of Long island, sent to Holland; Cornelis Melyn, Jochem Pietersen (Kuyter) and others, complain to the States-General; Jan van Hardenburgh; Van Twiller. [1648]

Document Date

1648-04-07

Document Date (Date Type)

1648-04-07

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Letter

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Letter

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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.