Document: Letter of Jacob Jansen Stoll to Petrus Stuyvesant

Honorable, Wise and Very Valiant Sir, Mr. Pieter Stuyvesant, greetings. I have at present nothing to write to your honor, except that the Indians promise us daily with a good deal of talk that they will come from day to day and give us their decision and it does not go further. Now, on the 28th October, they have promised me to be here at noon and announce to us their intentions. As Monsieur Montanie was here at the kil and we did not think it worth while to detain the sloops any longer, because they lie so much to us, we shall not wait for a sloop, but send down a canoe to inform your honor as soon as we have been informed by them. We trust that pursuant to orders, they will finally give up the land, of which your honor knows. In the haste I know at present nothing more to write to your honor, except to recommend your honor to God's mercy and to send my sincere greetings, remaining,

Done at Great Soopusthe 28th of October anno 1658.

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To the Honorable, Wise and very Valiant, his Honor Petrus Stuyvesant, General for the Chartered West India Company at Manatans in the Fort Amsterdam.

Jacob Jansen Stoll