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_71

Description

Amsterdam. Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant with printed placards. [1658]

Document Date

1658-01-05

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-01-05

Document Type

Letter

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Letter

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Translation

The 5th of January 1658.

Honorable, Prudent, Beloved, Faithful.

By the ships St. Jan Baptista and the Gulden Otter we have sent your honors our general letter and attachments relating thereto, so that this shall only serve as a cover for the accompanying printed placards mentioned in the aforesaid letter, together with the manifests and lists of private goods as well as free people loaded aboard and going over with the ship the Yserdraetvat; [1] all of which can be of service to your honors as is appropriate. Herewith,

Honorable, Prudent, Beloved, Faithful, we commend your honors to God's protection and remain your honors' good friends, the directors of the West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam.

Amsterdam, the 5th of January 1658.

[ ADDRESSED: ]

To the director general and councilors of New Netherland.

[ REVERSE: ]

Received with the Draatvadt

A. B. Decker de Jonge

Translation Superscripts

[1]: List does not exist.

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_71.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.