Document: Letter from Thomas Newman to Petrus Stuyvesant

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New York State Archives

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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

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Letter

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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

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.