Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to Jeremy Clarke, president of Rhode Island

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[ ] received a letter from your worthy [ ]

was pleased (for & in the generall behalfe of [ ]

the trade, Commerce & louing Correspondence [ ]

increasing whereof. I hope you shall aleways find [ ] desirous to give you any reasonable satisfaction, soe farre [ ] relation of whom I serve will permit & I doubt not with the [ ] matters betwixt your Countriemen & us[1] will be soe well Composed [ ] will rest well satisfied & well contented of my realle [ ]

Of late I have received information (Concerning a greate abuse not [ ] but all the rest of the English these, and our owne Jurisdiction heere [ ] have realtion and live under our goverment have & doe use [ ] way of trade with the natives amongst you; and am therefore desir[ ] knowne that exemplarie Justice may be executed uppon the delinqu[ · ] recomend it unto you sre. whom it Concemes as theyr elected Cheife [ ] magistrates to indeavour to finde oute the truth thereof, & to send me the [ ] therein, soe Sire with my respecting loue & thanks to your self & the rest of yo[ ] for theyer kinde salutes: I take my leave & rest ready

to serve you in what I may

Fort New Amsterdam in New Netherlands November the 2d 1647 st. novo

P: Styvesant

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