Document: Letter from the Prince of Orange to Petrus Stuyvesant

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New York State Archives

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_13b

Description

Hague. Letter. William, prince of Orange, to director Stuyvesant, to the same purport as the preceding. [1648]

Document Date

1648-05-19

Document Date (Date Type)

1648-05-19

Document Type

Letter

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Letter

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Translation

[1] [ The Prince of Orange ]

[Honorable, Purdent, Discreet, Dear Sir.

You will] receive [ by the bearers hereof Jochem Pietersen Cuyter and Cornelis Melyn, the commands, which their High: ] Might: the States General have concluded to issue to you, directing you to allow these men to enjoy their property there free [ and unmolested by virtue of ] the provisional appeal, granted to them by their High: Might: [ with the clause ] suspending the sentence [ passed ] over them by you [ on the 25th of ] July 1647. [ Although I do not ] doubt, that you will obey and respect [ these orders, ] yet I desire hereby to admonish you very earnestly and advise you expressly, that you allow these men to enjoy quietly and without contradiction the result of the resolution passed by their High: Might:.

Herewith etc

At s'Gravenhage,May 19th 1648.

To the Honorable Prudent, Discreet, Our Dear and Special Friend Petrus StuyvesantDirector of New Netherland.

W. d'Orange

Translation Superscripts

[1]: See NYCD, 14:87 for other translation.

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_13b.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.