Document: Letter from rev. Hermanus Blom to director Stuyvesant

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1810-78_V15_0122
Description

Letter. Rev. Hermanus Blom to director Stuyvesant, requesting the name of the consistory, that the 7th of June be annually observed at the Esopus as a day of Thanksgiving, in commemoration of the escape of so many persons from the Indian massacre on that day.

Document Date
1664-05-06
Document Date (Date Type)
1664-05-06
Document Type
Letter
Document Type Unlinked
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.

Location
Modern Location
Manhattan, NY
Esopus
Locations (Unlinked)
New Amsterdam|Esopus
To Party 1
To Party 1
Petrus Stuyvesant (ID: 224)
To Party 1 Text Unlinked
Petrus Stuyvesant
To Party 1 Entity
Director General DWIC
From Party 1
From Party 1 Text Unlinked
Rev. Hermanus Blom
From Party 1 Entity
Individual
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Council Dutch colonial administrative correspondence (Series A1810 _ 1647-1664)
Box
7
Volume
15
Item
122
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/50638