Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

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NYSA_A1810-78_V15_0138
Description

Letter. Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; imprisonment of John Scott; his magistrates on Long Island deposed; English towns annexed to Connecticut; movements of gov. Winthrop on Long Island; ships about to sail from England; their reported object; patent to Rhode Island; grant to the duke of York; Dutch purchases and patents of no value in the eyes of the English; priority of the Dutch settlement on the Connecticut river and at Narraganset; intrigues of the English among the Indians; emigrants from Rochelle and St. Martin; French clergyman at St. Martin invited; William Bogardus.

Document Date
1664-08-04
Document Date (Date Type)
1664-08-04
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Letter
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Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the  New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source:New York State Archives. New York (Colony). Council. Dutch colonial administrative correspondence, 1646-1664. Series A1810-78. Volume 15.

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

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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.

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Amsterdam
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Directors at Amsterdam
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Petrus Stuyvesant
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Related Ancestors (Unlinked)
John Scott||gov. Winthrop|duke of York||William Bogardus
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