Document: Resolution of the States General recalling Director General Stuyvesant

[ ] 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[ ].

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

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