Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V13_0050

Description

Letter. Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; bad situation of the country; general alarm among the settlers on Long Island; visits Breuckelen, Midwout and Amesfoort; siege of Esopus; failure to raise volunteers; draft in New Amsterdam; Stuyvesant proceeds with reinforcements to the Esopus; siege raised; heavy freshet; English designs in the neighborhood of Fort Orange; reinforcements, &c., demanded.

Document Date

1659-10-29

Document Date (Date Type)

1659-10-29

Document Type

Letter

Document Type Unlinked

Letter

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Translation

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: None

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.