Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

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NYSA_A1810-78_V13_0131

Description

Letter. Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; people of New Plymouth and Connecticut now as good royalists as they had been Cromwellians and Parliamentarians; king Charles proclaimed there; Massachusetts claims to be a free state dependent only on God; condition of things at the Delaware; trade; currency; Melyn; rev. William Leverets sails for Holland; the English villages (on Long Island) destitute of clergymen; rev. Messrs. Blom and Selyns; no ministers at New Utrecht, Gravesend or Harlem.

Document Date

1660-10-06

Document Date (Date Type)

1660-10-06

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.