Document: Letter from gov. Colve to Johan Doncker

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New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1881-78_V23_0245a
Description

Letter from gov. Colve to Johan Doncker

Document Date
1674-05-12
Document Date (Date Type)
1674-05-12
Document Type
Letter
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Translation
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To Mr. Johan Doncker, Governor at the Island of Curaçao.

Honorable Sir,Your letter of the 20th March last, reached me by Mr. Balthazaer Bayard, the bearer hereof. Since then a ketch has been dispatched hence with provisions to the Island of Curaçao, and a small ship named the Coopman arrived thence here. Reports from New England and Virginia talk of a peace, the confirmation whereof is shortly expected from Patria. No more at present but greeting and commendation to God from

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References
Translation: O'Callaghan, E.B., trans./ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, vol. 2 (Albany: Weed, Parsons: 1858), pp. 569-730 (vol. 23, pp. 1-270 only).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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New Netherland Council Dutch colonial administrative records (Series A1881 _ 1673-1674)
Box
17
Volume
23
Item
245a
Link
https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/51968