Document: Letter from director Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V15_0121

Description

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; receipt of documents mentioned (supra, p. 110); New Utrecht; Palatines on Staten Island; block houses to defend the narrows; hostile proceeding of John Scott and Connecticut instigated from England; English purchase land at the Newesinghs; folly of resisting the English on Long Island; agreement with John Scott; description of emigrants from Holland; affairs at Esopus; map of Coney Island; revenue.

Document Date

1664-04-26

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-04-26

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.