Document: New Amsterdam, November 15, 1647. Letter. Director Stuyvesant to Governor Winthrop; complaints against New Haven

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New York State Archives

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_05b

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New Amsterdam. Letter. Director Stuyvesant to gov. Winthrop; complaints against New Haven. [1647]

Document Date

1647-11-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1647-11-15

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Letter

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Letter

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Translation

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[ ] two letters [ ] [ ] may by these please to [ ] [ ] all with souldiers to [ ] [ ] any other malefactors [ ] [ ] uppon the first intimation from you [ ]

By that sent me by your countryman Baxter; I [ ] Mercy in your recouvery and likwise of your friendlie [ ] imparting them to your Commissioners since which you may [ ]of New Haven have somthing misenterpreted my actions in my [ ] H. M. the states Generall of the United Belgicke Provinces [ ] but according to the order of my masters.

They have likewise refused to deliver the fugitives being servants and [ ] Indie Company, allthough I requested the deliverie of them to our officer [ ] them: however my resolution are according to my first to you which [ ] good tyme will effectuate to our mutual comfortable neighbourhood, by our [ ] togeather in the spring with the worth Gouernor of Plimmouth in [ ] recommend you to the protextion of the most high and

Your humble ser[ ]

Fort New Amst: in New NetherlandsNovember the 15th 1647 st. no.

P. Styvesant

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_V11_05b.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.