Document: Director General Stuyvesant to Governor Eaton

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_11f

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Newhaven. Letter. Gov. Eaton to Director Stuyvesant; vindicates the English right to the Delaware; customs at the Manhattans, and;New Amsterdam. Letter. Director Stuyvesant to gov. Eaton; is determined to maintain the Dutch right to the Delaware. [1649]

Document Date

1649-07-02

Document Date (Date Type)

1649-07-02

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Letter

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Translation

The Answere.

Sir

[1]Yours of the 7th of June I recd and wonder much att Mr. Allertons [ neglect in shewing ] you the letter and discharge concerning the cowe; assone as he retoumes [ I shall speake ] with him aboute it, and then write to you againe.

Concerning your protest against my predecessour, Mounsr. Kieft, aboute [ some passages att the ] Sowth river, called Deleware, I doubt not but what he did was vppon [ warrantable grownds, ] and made yow a sufficient answere, but concerning our right there, and [ of my intentions of ] maintaining it, I have allready written to the governours of the [ Massachusets & Plimmouth, ] who I suppose will acquaint the commissioners with it.

Whereas you write to me concerning your countriemens trading heere, and pa[ ssing to ] and from Virginia and Deleware, etc. I haue allready written & graunted as much as I [ can ] or dare doe, vntill I haue further order from my sovereignes and masters, and am not to be responsible to any but them, nor regulated by any but them.

July the 2d, (1649,) st: no:

Pet: Styvesant

Translation Superscripts

[1]: Missing portions recovered from ibid., 1:535-36.

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_11f.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.