Document: Letter from Petrus Stuyvesant to the magistrates of Heemstede

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NYSA_A1810-78_V12_65

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New Amsterdam. Letter. Director Stuyvesant to the magistrates of Hempstead; commutation for tenths; rev. Mr. Denton. [1657]

Document Date

1657-07-29

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-07-29

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Letter

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Letter

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Translation

Lovinge frindes

Your letter send By Mister Semins and his information have given vs full satisfaction so that wee sal rest in your promisse off hundert skepels off wheat for the tentes for the present year; about the continuancy of mister Denton amonghst you we sal vse al endevers we ken jff hee ken nott bee perswaded jou most locke for an other Abel and Godly men weer vnto wee on our seyde sul contribu waht leys in our poure, soe Affter me.

Heemsteedsent the 29th of July 29 1657.

[ ENDORSED: ] Go. Stuyvesant to the Towne of HempsteedJuly 1657.

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_65.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.