Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V14_0064

Description

Letter. Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; block house at Oysterbay; boundaries; arrival at New Amsterdam of John Winthrop, governor of Connecticut; New Haven annexed to it; John Scott; Maryland; commissary Beeckman; threats of Esopus Indians; complaint against the authorities of the city's colonie at the Delaware; manner in which the trade and navigation act is evaded in Virginia; gov. Berkeley; Melyn resides at New Haven; Staten Island; slaves; currency; duties payable in specie; Brian Newton and surgeon Varrevanger discharged.

Document Date

1662-07-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1662-07-15

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.