Document: Minute of director Stuyvesant's departure for the Esopus

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1002a

Description

Minute of director Stuyvesant's departure for the Esopus.

Document Date

1658-10-09

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-10-09

Document Type

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Minute

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Translation

Today the lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant departed with some 50 men for the Esopus to see whether the wilden, according to the promise they made when the lord general was there the last time, had made good on the damage done. Dated as above.[i]

Translation Superscripts

[i]: See NYCD 13:93 for another translation.

References

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

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1002a.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

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.