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

Document Type

Letter

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Letter

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Translation

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.