Document: Letter from the directors to Stuyvesant

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V13_0143

Description

Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant; boundaries; ambassadors to England instructed thereupon; city's colonie at the Delaware; sheriff Van Sweringen; currency; ministers for English villages on Long Island; terms on which English people are to be permitted to settle in New Netherland; Evert Pietersen, schoolmaster; map of New Amsterdam; bell for the church at Brooklyn; Van der Capelle's heirs surrender Staten Island.

Document Date

1660-12-24

Document Date (Date Type)

1660-12-24

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.