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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Translation

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source:New York State Archives. New York (Colony). Council. Dutch colonial administrative correspondence, 1646-1664. Series A1810-78. Volume 11, document 12, page 1, side 1.

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

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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.