Document: Letter from the directors in Amsterdam to Petrus Stuyvesant [Duplicate of the preceding letter]

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V11_54

Description

April 4. Amsterdam. Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant; address letters to the colonists; proclamation against traffic in munitions of war; proposed league with the English against Indians; colonists allowed to import negroes into New Netherland; children to be sent thither from orphan asylums; English privateers seize Dutch ships; reprisals; New Netherland bureau established; checks for abuses in land granting; part of Staten island sold; conflicts between the purchases of baron Van der Capelle and Mr. Van Werckhoven at the Raritan; New Amsterdam incorporated; public school, Jan La Montagne principal; case of the ship New Netherland Fortune; war between the Mohawks and Canada Indians; Fort Orange; Van Twiller; sheep; South river; forts Nassau and Casimir; Hartford treaty; boundary; rev. S. Drisius; rev. Mr. Grasmeer. [Duplicate of the preceding letter.]

Document Date

1652-04-04

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-04-04

Document Type

Letter

Document Type Unlinked

Letter

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Translation

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source:New York State Archives. New York (Colony). Council. Dutch colonial administrative correspondence, 1646-1664. Series A1810-78. Volume 11, document 54, page 1, side 1.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

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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.