Document: Resolution of the States General recalling Director General Stuyvesant

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V11_64a

Description

Resolution of the States-General ordering the return of director Stuyvesant to Holland.

Document Date

1652-04-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-04-27

Document Type

Resolution

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Resolution

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Translation

[ ] lords States General of the United Netherlands.

Saturday, 27 April 1652

Upon consideration, it is resolved and concluded to write to Petrus Stuyvesant, director general in New Netherland, to repair hither on receipt of the despatch, in order to give their High Mightinesses circumstantial and pertinent information of the true and actual condition of the country; also, of the boundary line between the English and Dutch there; extract of this, their High Mightinesses' resolution, shall be sent to the presiding chamber of the West India Company at Amsterdam, for its information. It was enacted, Johan van Reed[ ].

Below was written:

It agrees with the aforesaid register and was signed: N. Ruysch

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_64a.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.