Document: Letter from the town of Hempstead to Petrus Stuyvesant

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V12_41

Description

Hempstead. Letter. Town clerk to director Stnyvesant, objecting to the payment of tenths at present, and demanding indemnity for damages. [1656]

Document Date

1656-00-00

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-01-01

Document Type

Letter

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Letter

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Translation

Honoured Sir

Yours wee received Bearing Date the 4th of July 1656[1] wherein you demand the tenths. Which iff they bee due according to Covenant then wee are ready to pay them iff there bee any deputed to receave them according to Covenant. But wee know off no General peace was made with the Indians till this year. Sir wee allsoe doe expect that you will make good vnto vs such Damages as you by Covenant have bound your selffe to make good vnto vs. Sir wee take our Leaves & subscribe our selves. Yours,

[ ENDORSED: ]

A[ postile ] from Hempstead in the year 1656 about the tenths to Gov. Stuyvesant.

Aaron his X mark Forman
Simon Saring
John X Smith
Beniamin Coe
John X Smith
Nicholas Taner
John Seaman
John Sturgis
Richard Wodhull
Robert Maruin
Thomas iacop (?)
William Scadding
Thomas X Ellison
James his X marke Pine
Francis X Weeks
Daniell Whythead
John his X marke Ellison
Richard Willetts
Robert Iackson
Richard Valantine
The mark of John X Stickland
John Hickes
Ri. Gildersleue
William Washborn
Robert X Ashmane
Edward X Reiner
Henry his X marke Pearsall
Will: Yeates
Thomas Champion
Richard his X marke Stiles
Jeremiah G. Wood
Laurence X Ellison
George X Mils
Richard Brudnill
Robert Forman
Joseph Scott
John Smith
Jonas Halsteade
Thomas X Southard
William X Smith
Robert X Beadles

Translation Superscripts

[1]: Letter no longer exists.

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_41.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.