Document: Letter from the directors at Amsterdam to Petrus Stuyvesant

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_18

Description

Amsterdam. Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant; peace with Spain to be proclaimed; Curaçao; rev. Megapolensis; schoolmaster sent out; remonstrance from New Netherland; Melyn and Van Twiller endeavoring to deprive the company of that country; rev. Backerus; Van der Donck; conflict between Renselaerswyck and Fort Orange; latter erected 15 years before the former; free navigation of the North river to be enforced; Aug. Hermans; efforts of the delegates from New Netherland; increased interest awakened towards that country; abuses in land granting; Staten island; bouweries at the Mahattans; secretary Van Tienhoven; boundaries. [1650]

Document Date

1650-02-16

Document Date (Date Type)

1650-02-16

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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 18, 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.