Document: Letter from Thomas Newman to Petrus Stuyvesant

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1810-78_V12_48
Description

Easttown. Letter. Thomas Newman to director Stuyvesant, requesting sundry articles for the town of Westchester. [1657]

Document Date
1657-01-01
Document Date (Date Type)
1657-01-01
Document Type
Letter
Document Type Unlinked
Letter
Full Resolution Image

Download, 100MB+ (Right-Click)

Translation
Translation

Honred Sir,

Wee humbly Desir and request that you wold be plesed to send vs a Court Booke and those 12 Mvskets which you spak of with the rest of the ammounishon for the use and safgard of ovr plantation with the orders and Laws which we are to walk by that wee may know how to act.

From Este towne the 1 of Jenuary 1656.[1]

Thomas Newman

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the  New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source:New York State Archives. New York (Colony). Council. Dutch colonial administrative correspondence, 1646-1664. Series A1810-78. Volume 12, document 47.

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Note that this an old style date; according to the Gregorian calendar adopted by the province of Holland in 1568 it should read 1657.
References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York.  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1810/NYSA_A1810-78_V12_48.xml

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
Westchester
Locations (Unlinked)
Easttown|Westchester
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
Thomas Newman
From Party 1 Entity
Individual
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Council Dutch colonial administrative correspondence (Series A1810 _ 1647-1664)
Box
2
Volume
12
Item
48
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/45235