Document: Letter from Daniel Denton to Petrus Stuyvesant

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NYSA_A1810-78_V12_62

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Rustdorp. Letter. Daniel Denton, town clerk, to director Stuyvesant, complaining that the magistrates of Hempstead had impounded cattle belonging to Jamaica, L. I., and demanding redress. [1657]

Document Date

1657-07-20

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-07-20

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Letter

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Translation

Wee your Subiects the Inhabitants off Rusdorp having a Company off Catie to the number off Sixty or thereabouts which have been within the bounds & Commons off Hemstead are by them taken up & pounded: wee upon intelligence sent two men to fetch them & demaund them in a Loving and Neighborly way. The magistrates refused to deliver our Catie unlesse wee would pay damage which our Catie have done in there unfenced Field which wee refused to doe & our Catie are there still kept & retained in there pound. Sir wee humbly crave your worships assistance in this Casethat you would bee pleased to graunt us a Reprievement for our Catie which they retain & alsoe a warrant to Summons Some off there town to Answer the Cause at your high Court. And whereas great damage may happen & Accrew to vs iff the Cause bee suspended wee humbly crave your worship would answer our Requests by this bearer. Soe with apprecation off all happinesse to your Lordship wee humbly take our leave who Remain,

July the 20th 1657.

Your Loyall Subiects the Inhabitants off Rusdorp

[ ADDRESSED: ]

To the Right Worshipfull Peeter Steyvesant Esq Governor Generall of the New Netherlands these present. In New Amsterdam.

[ ENDORSED: ]

From Jamaica to Gov. Stuyvesant. July 20, 1657 [ LS ]

Daniell Denton

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_V12_62.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.