New Netherland in 1627.
Letter from Isaack de Rasiere (Rasieres) to Samuel Blommaert.
Per National Archives of the Netherlands: Incomplete. At least four pages are missing.
Retrieved from the Royal Library of the Netherlands, 1866.
Per J. Romeyn Broadhead: “found in the Royal library at the Hague, and transmitted by Dr. M. F. A. G. Campbell to the N. Y. historical society.” Tr. from the original Dutch by J. Romeyn Brodhead. [NAHC note: Since 1866 the manuscript has been kept in the Nationaal Archief, The Hague: The original manuscript pages/images can be found here: https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/1.05.06/invnr/2; 1.05.06 Inventory of the Collection of Scattered West Indian Pieces, 1614-1875
An additional transcript is available in "Indian Stories: The Earliest Descriptions of Indians Along the Hudson River" (1609-1680), edited by Kees-Jan Waterman, Jaap Jacobs, and Charles T. Gehring. Zutphen, 2009.
Images Courtesy of National Archives of the Netherlands - Nationaal Archief - Public Domain
Translations Courtesy of Library of Congress and the Digital Library - Hathi Trust: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102588500 - Public domain
English text by J. Romeyn Brodhead is also available online and made downloadable by Cornell University - The Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature.
APA Citation: Rasieres, I. de., Brodhead, J. Romeyn. New Netherland in 1627: Letter from Isaack de Rasieres to Samuel Blommaert, found in the Royal library at the Hague, and transmitted by Dr. M. F. A. G. Campbell to the N. Y. historical society. [NAHC note: Since 1866 the manuscript has been kept in the Nationaal Archief, The Hague: The original manuscript pages/images can be found here: https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/archief/1.05.06/invnr/2