Document: Minute that director Stuyvesant submitted a report of his transactions in Curaçao and the Caribbee islands; date of his departure and return from the West Indies

14 July.

At the session the honorable lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant reported on his business at Curasao and the islands of the Caribbean, and communicated what transpired to the honorable lords councilors, and presented to the secretary the papers and documents of what happened during this time. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra. 14 July 1655.

The honorable lord general departed from here on the 24th of December 1654 and returned, praise be to God, on the 11th of July 1655.

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