Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V13_0031

Description

Letter. Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; sick; decline of trade at Fort Orange; settlers removing from the South river to Maryland, Virginia and the Manhattans; lord Baltimore; boundaries; commissioners from Boston at Fort Orange; their designs; "so many hounds are death to the hare;" settlement on Wappingers kill recommended; emigration; Indian murders midway between Fort Orange and Hartford, and at Mespat; causes thereof, and remedy; reinforcements sent to Esopus.

Document Date

1659-09-04

Document Date (Date Type)

1659-09-04

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.