Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to the vice-director of Curaçao

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NYSA_A1810-78_V13_0117

Description

Letter. Stuyvesant to the vice-director of Curaçao; arrival of horses and negroes; cause of the death of most of the horses; slave trade; Van Gezel; Esopus Indians transported to Curaçao, to work with negroes; Stuyvesant going to Esopus.

Document Date

1660-07-12

Document Date (Date Type)

1660-07-12

Document Type

Letter

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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.