Document: Letter from the directors to Stuyvesant

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V14_0043

Description

Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant; block house at Oysterbay, &c.; lord Sterling; Long Island; Maryland boundary; difference between the mode of raising revenue in New England and New Netherland; interview between gov. Winthrop of Connecticut and the directors at Amsterdam; Staten Island; Melyn; reports of English designs on New Netherland discredited; negotiations in England; law books; currency; duties to be paid in coin or beavers; Johan de Decker; emigrants.

Document Date

1662-01-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1662-01-27

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.