Document: Letter from the Directors in Amsterdam to the Director General and Council

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V12_67b

Description

Amsterdam. Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant, with clothing for the soldiers in New Netherland. [1657]

Document Date

1657-09-19

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-09-19

Document Type

Letter

Document Type Unlinked

Letter

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Translation

The 19th of September 1657.[1]

Honorable, Prudent, Beloved, Faithful. After our general letter[2] was sealed and already sent off we resolved also to send to your honor by this ship, the Wasbleecker, some goods and necessities required for the soldiers: russet, English caps, shirts, stockings, and shoes (as can be seen in the accompanying manifest)[3], sothat they can be provided for to some extent against the winter. Your honor is herewith advised to distribute the same according to the most utility and to those most in need.

Honorable, Prudent, Beloved, Faithful, commending your honor to God's blessed protection, remaining,

Amsterdam, 19 September 1657.

[ ADDRESSED: ]

To the Lords Petrus Stuyvesant, director general, and councilors in New Netherland.

Ab. de Decker de Jonge

Translation Superscripts

[1]: The original, which was sent aboard the Wasbleecker, differs only in minor points from an accompanying duplicate letter omitted here.
[2]: Letter dated September 15, 1657; see document 12:66.
[3]: The manifest does not survive.

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_67b.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.