Document: Director General Stuyvesant to Governor Winthrop

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_07f

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New Amsterdam. Letter. Director Stuyvesant to gov. Winthrop; requests that matters may remain in statu quo until regularly settled. [1648]

Document Date

1648-08-26

Document Date (Date Type)

1648-08-26

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Letter

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Letter

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Translation

[ ] of one purport and date being the 26th. [ ] I understand that through som[ ] very sorrye, In respect I [ ] writt to [ ] it some 14 dayes agoe by a ship that went [ ] is likewise, to have had some agitation with your Commissio[ ] the trade with the natives, which for present must be suspended [ ] are pleased to write Concerning the setling of a firme peace betwene [ ] has begune, allthough there hath bynne some difference in words, I hope [ ] as once thinke of warre betwene us, fore I shall not only desire but prayes [ ]respondencie betwene us and those of New haven and other places, allways p[ ] in incroaching uppon one anothers pr[ ] state they are, untill theire bee [ ] of the diference of limits of the which I intreate you will please to acqu[ ]missioners: soe having not further att present but my humble respects to your self[ ] I take leave and rest

Yours in all offices of love and service

Fort New Amsterdam in New Netherlands

August the 26th 1648. st: no:

Peter Styvesant

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_07f.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.