Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York: Holland documents. 1856-58. v. 3-8, London documents. 1853-57. v. 9-10, Paris documents. 1855-58

June

1657.

May

16. License from Director Stuyvesant to Carsten Jeroensen, Captain of a yacht, to go to Curaçao, &c.,....

24. Instructions to Skipper Jeroensen,.

25. Letter of Skipper Jeroensen to Director Stuyvesant,.

1658.

April

May

26. Resolution of the States-General referring the foregoing documents to a committee, &c.,...

3. Resolution of the States-General referring to a committee a letter of the West India Company respect-

ing the ratification, by the English government, of the Provisional Boundary agreed to at Hartford,

31. Resolution of the States-General referring to a committee a petition of the West India Company praying

that the exportation of arms and ammunition to New Netherland may be prohibited,....

June

6. Resolution of the States-General upon the report of the abovenamed committee,...

July 18. Account of moneys borrowed for the city's Colonie at New Netherland, at interest to date,..

October 10. Letter of Vice-Director Alrichs to the Commissioners of the city's Colonie on the Delaware,...

October 19. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam referring the condition of its Colonie to a committee,

December 20. Resolution of said Council upon the report of their committee to alter the articles, &c.,.

1659.

February 13. Letter of the Chamber at Amsterdam to the Director and Council of New Netherland,......

Remonstrance of the Commissioners of the city's Colonie on the Delaware recommending a modifica-

tion of the Conditions,......

10. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam upon the above remonstrance,.

22. Letter of the Commissioners of the City's Colonie to Vice-Director Alrichs,..

27. Calculation of expenses, &c., for the transportation of 100 persons to New Netherland,.
13. Letter of Governor Fendall, of Maryland, to Vice-Director Alrichs,..

September 23. Extract from the proceedings of the XIX, of the West India Company, respecting New Netherland,...

September 9. Protest of the Vice-Director and Council at New Amstel against Lord Baltimore's claims,.....

September 20. Letter of Vice-Director Alrichs to the Commissioners of the city's Colonie,.

September 21. Letter of Vice-Director Alrichs to Burgomaster Cornelis de Graeff,....

September 30. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam to surrender the city's Colonie to the West India

Company, ....

September 30. Order appointing a day of General Fasting and Prayer,...

October

6. Vindication of the Dutch title to the Delaware river, or Declaration and Manifest on behalf of the

Director-General and Council of New Netherland, delivered to the Governor and Council of

Maryland,

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17. Observations of Messrs. Heermans and Waldron on Lord Baltimore's patent,......

October 17. Letter of the Governor and Council of Maryland to the Director and Council of New Netherland,....

October. Journal kept by Augustine Heermans of his embassy from New Netherland to the Governor and

Council of Maryland,....

October 21. Letter of Messrs. Heermans and Waldron to Director Stuyvesant,...

.......

November 8. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam to grant a further subsidy of 12,000 guilders for the
city's Colonie on the Delaware river,................
November 18. Return of loans effected on account of the city's Colonie at New Netherland, at interest of St per
cent, to this day,......
November 18. Extracts from the records of the Vice-Director, Council and Schepens of the Colonie at New Amstel,
Letter of Sheriff Van Sweringen to the Commissioners of the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,...

December 8. Letter of Sheriff Van Sweringen on affairs in the city's Colonie,.....

December 12. Letter of Alexander d'Hinojosa to the Commissioners at Amsterdam, together with sundry accounts,

December 12. Letter of Vice-Director Alrichs to the Commissioners of the Colonie on the Delaware river,..........

December 24. Letter of Skipper Jacob Jansen Huys to the Commissioners of the city's Colonie, dated on board the

galiot New Amstel, lying at The Ferry at Manhattans,...

1660.

August 25. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam referring a memorial of the Commissioners on the

affairs of the Colonie,......

September 25. Papers relating to the controversy with Lord Baltimore,.....

August

July

23. Protest of Captain James Neale, Agent of Lord Baltimore, against the West India Company,..........

3. Letter of Charles II. to the Governor of Virginia commanding him to assist Lord Baltimore against

Governor Fendal and his faction in Maryland,..

24. Letter of Attorney from Lord Baltimore to Captain Neale,.

September 1. Answer of the Board of the XIX. of the West India Company to Captain Neale's protest,.
September 30. Letter of Skipper Jacob Jansen Huys to the Commissioners of the Colonie on the Delaware river,.....
November 5. Letter of the West India Company to the States-General inclosing sundry papers on Boundaries,..
November 5. Deduction respecting the differences about Boundaries, &c., in New Netherland,.
November 5. Memorial of the West India Company to the States-General respecting the differences on the South
river with Lord Baltimore, &c.,.....

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Deduction, or Brief and clear Account of the situation of New Netherland; who were its first discover-

ers and settlers, &c., and the unseemly and hostile usurpations, by the neighboring English, of the

lands within the West India Company's limits,

25. Protest of the Director and Council of New Netherland against William Holmes' settling on the Fresh

river,

8. Condition and Agreement entered into between Commissary Jacob van Curler and the Chiefs of the

Remonstrance of Commissary Opdyck respecting the violent and hostile proceedings of the English at

Fort Hope, on the Fresh river,.....

141

October

1641.

15. Notice of Director Kieft to Captain Patrick that the land he has settled on belongs to the Dutch,.

Particulars of further aggressions of the English at Fort Hope,.....

142

8. Protest of Director Kieft against Robert Coghwel, about to proceed to the South river,.....

1640.

May

13. Commission and Instructions to Secretary Van Tienhoven, about to proceed against some foreigners

and vagabonds who have landed on Long Island,...

10. Power of Attorney to the Reverend Hugh Peters from the Governors of Massachusetts and Connecticut,

to treat with the Dutch West India Company respecting the land on the Fresh river,......

Proposals of the Reverend Hugh Peters to the Dutch West India Company,.....

150

1653.

May

20. Vindication of Captain John Underhill, setting forth the causes which impel him and others to renounce

the Dutch government and to submit to the Parliament of England,..

151

1655,

March

9. Proclamation issued at Gravesend, Long Island, establishing the laws and republic of England, ..

1650.

August

20. Letter of the Magistrates of Gravesend, Long Island, to the Directors at Amsterdam expressive of their

happiness under the government of Director Stuyvesant, &c.,.....

154

1651.

September 25. Letter of the Magistrates of Heemstede to the Directors at Amsterdam in defence of Director

Stuyvesant's government, &c.,..

September 14. Letter of the Magistrates of Gravesend to the Directors at Amsterdam, against an elective Governor

and other popular clamors,...

154

156

1653.

December 27. Letter of the Magistrates of Gravesend to the Directors at Amsterdam in vindication of their loyalty

24. Letter of Director Stuyvesant to the Magistrates of Gravesend, L. I., ordering them to send him the

letter addressed by Protector Cromwell to the English of Long Island,.....

October 30. Letter of the Director and Council of New Netherland forwarding to the Directors at Amsterdam the

Protector's letter,......

162

163

1627.

September 5. Order of King Charles I., in Council,...

163

1660.

November 5. Resolution of the States-General to write to their Ambassadors at London, and to send the foregoing

papers to them, &c.,.......

164

November 5. Letter of the States-General to their Ambassadors at London, thereupon,.

November 16. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam, appropriating 6,000 guilders for the pressing neces-

sities of the Colonie on the Delaware river, &c.,.

6. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam, granting a further subsidy of 15,250 guilders, . . . . . .

Report of the Commissioners of the city's Colonie to the Burgomasters of Amsterdam, concerning

alterations in the conditions, &c.,.....

9. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam to maintain the Colonie on the Delaware river,.....

19. Resolution of the Commissioners of the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,. . . . .

18. Proposals for subscriptions to the stock of the Colonie on the Delaware river,.

November 9. Directors at Amsterdam to Director Stuyvesant (with ),..........

167

171

173

Proposals of the city of Amsterdam, and further privileges granted to its Colonie on the Delaware

river, .....

173

Further enlargement of the privileges granted to the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,.....

175

1662.

April

20. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam, to loan 100 guilders to each of the twenty-five

families of Mennonists going to the Delaware river,......

June

9. Contract with Peter Cornelis Plockhoy to convey Mennonists to the Delaware,.

September 16. Letter of Director Stuyvesant to the Magistrates of New Amstel,.

September 16. Letter of Director Stuyvesant to the Chamber at Amsterdam,...

November 3. Return of Monthly payments on account of the Colonie on the Delaware river, from 18th November,

1659, to 3d November, 1662,.

1663.

List of emigrants going to the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,....

List of goods, &c., to be sent to the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,.....

List of farming implements required for the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,.....

Return of ammunition and stores to be sent to the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,.

November 14. Account, debit and credit, of receipts and disbursements for the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,

Letter of the Commissioners of the city's Colonie to the Burgomasters of Amsterdam,....

February 8. Resolution of the Directors of the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company, in answer to

sertain proposals from the Burgomasters of Amsterdam respecting the surrender of both sides of

the Delaware river to that city, &c.,.....

February 22. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam referring certain matters affecting the city's Colonie

on the Delaware river to a committee, &c., .........

Some Thoughts on the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,..

Enlarged conditions for the Colonie on the Delaware river,....

....

10. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam to continue assistance to the city's Colonie on the

Delaware river, ....

16. Further resolution of the Council upon the same subject,.

July. Aug. Resolutions of the Chamber at Amsterdam touching the city's Colonie on the Delaware river,.......

August 10. Report of the Commissioners and Directors of the city's Colonie to the Burgomasters of Amsterdam,.

August 10. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam to send a ship to the city's Colonie on the Delaware

October 23. Further proposal of the Commissioners and Directors, concerning the affairs of the city's Colonie, sub-

mitted to the Burgomasters of Amsterdam,......

213

October

24. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam on the aforesaid proposal,...

215

Remonstrance of the West India Company to the States-General, complaining of the encroachments of

the English on New Netherland,...................

216

217

December 20. Resolution of the States General referring said remonstrance,.

1664.

January 20. Letter of the Directors at Amsterdam to the Director and Council of New Netherland respecting the
encroachments of the English in that country, &c.,......

January 21. Memorial of the Directors of the West India Company, &c., to the States-General, complaining of the

continued unlawful proceedings of the English in New Netherland, &c.,......................

Jannary 21. Resolution of the States-General referring the foregoing memorial to their committee,.

January 23. Resolution of the States-General that the Ambassadors, about to be sent to London, be instructed to

insist upon the ratification, by the English, of the Treaty of Hartford; and also that an act be

passed, under the Great Seal, defining the limits of New Netherland, as therein settled,................

January 23. Declaration of the States-General in favor of the title of the Dutch West India Company to New

Netherland,.............

January 23. Letter of the States-General to the towns in New Netherland, &c.,.

February 29. Letter of the Director-General and Council of New Netherland to the Amsterdam Chamber of the West

India Company respecting the encroachments of the English,.......

21. Letter of the Chamber at Amsterdam to the Director and Council of New Netherland; Commissioners

about to proceed to New England to install Bishops there,......

23. Letter of King Charles II. to the Governors of New England to assist in reducing New Netherland,...

19. Letter of Mr. Harald Appelboom, the Swedish Resident at the Hague, to the States-General, respecting

the "Elucidation" contained in the Treaty of Elbing,.

19. Resolution of the States-General thereupon,.

27. Memorial of Mr. Appelboom, the Swedish Minister, to the States-General respecting the restoration of

the Colony on the South river,....

Memorial of Mr. Appelboom, the Swedish Minister, to the States-General in support of the good and
complete right of the Crown of Sweden to Nova Suecia,......

27. Resolution of the States-General referring the foregoing memorials to the West India Company, &c.,..
8. Letter of the West India Company to the Burgomasters at Amsterdam respecting the English
aggressions, &c.,

8. Letter of the Commissioners and Directors of the Colonie on the Delaware river on the same subject,..
8. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam referring to a committee thetwo precedi ng letters
concerning the aggressions of the English on New Netherland, &c.,......................

16. Resolution of the Common Council of Amsterdam to assist the Company with ships, &c.,................
August 15. Resolution of the States-General upon the memorials of the Swedish Minister, abovementioned,
August 15. Letter of the States-General to the Amsterdam Chamber of the West India Company, thereupon,...
August

19. Resolution of the States-General upon the memorial of the Swedish Minister,.....

August

25. Resolution of the States-General upon the receipt of despatches from the Ambassador at London,....

September 5. Remonstrance of the people of New Netherland, to the Director and Council, against resisting the

English and urging a capitulation,.....

243

244

245

September 6. Articles of capitulation on the reduction of New Netherland by the English,..

September 12. Letter of Ambassador Van Gogh to Secretary Ruysch respecting the news that New Netherland

is reduced by the English, &c.,

250

253

October

6. Letter of the West India Company to the States-General (with), . . . .

254

Observations upon the memorial of Sir George Downing, the English Ambassador, about the differences

with the Company, &c.,.....

6. Resolution of the States-General referring the foregoing observations to a committee, &c... ....

9. Letter of the West India Company to the States-General, in answer to their High Mightinesses' letter

of August 15th, about the Swedes on the South river, &c.,.....

258

October

9. Resolution of the States-General, referring the foregoing letter to their committee, &c.,...

8. Resolution of the States-General, approving the draft of a reply to the King of England's answer to
various memorials presented to his Majesty by Ambassador Van Gogh, &c.,.

October 9. Reply of the States-General to the King of England's answer, &c.,.......

260

261

October

24. Letter of the West India Company to the States-General, acquainting them with the surrender of New

Netherland to the English, &c.,.....

272

October 24. Resolution of the States-General, to send copies of the foregoing to all the Provinces, and also to their

Ambassador at London, &c.,.....

1664.

....

October 31. Resolution of the States of Holland upon the subject of the restitution of New Netherland, unjustly and
violently taken by the King of England, &c.,......

October 31. Resolution of the States-General, further instructing Ambassador Van Gogh in regard to the affair of

New Netherland, &c.,................

.....

October 31. Letter of the States-General to Ambassador Van Gogh thereupon, inclosing copy of the West India

Company's remonstrance,..

November 7. Letter of Ambassador Van Gogh transmitting an account of his audience with King Charles II. on the
subject of the taking of New Netherland, &c.,...................

November 5. Memorial addressed by Ambassador Van Gogh to the King of England on the subject of the English

aggressions in New Netherland, &c.,......

November 6. Another memorial from Ambassador Van Gogh to King Charles II. on the same subject,......
November 13. Letter of the States-General to all the Provinces upon the receipt of the foregoing despatches, urging
prompt preparations for war, &c.,......

November 14. Letter of Ambassador Van Gogh to Secretary Ruysch, respecting New Netherland, &c..................

December 5. Memorial of Sir George Downing, the English Ambassador to the States-General, complaining of their

conduct, &c.,. . . . . .

....

December 5. Resolution of the States General referring the above memorial to their committee, &c.,

December 11. Resolution of the States-General upon the foregoing memorial, . . .

December 11. Letter of the States-General to their Ambassadors at London, Paris, &c., thereupon,..

December 12. Secret resolution of the States-General to victual the fleet under Vice-Admiral de Ruyter,.

December 12. Letter of instructions of the States General to Vice-Admiral de Ruyter,......

December 18. Secret resolution of the States-General, approving draft of a letter to the King of France, in regard to

the hostile aggressions of England, &c.,................

December 18. Letter of the States-General to the King of France, thereupon,..

December 18. Letter of the States-General to M. Van Beuningen, their Ambassador at Paris, inclosing the above,....

December 19. Letter of Ambassador Van Gogh to Secretary Ruysch, containing an account of his audiences with the

12. Grant of New Netherland to the Duke of York,.

December 20. Memorial of Sir George Downing, the English Ambassador to the States-General, justifying the conduct

of the King of England and complaining of the States, &c.,.

December 30. Resolution of the States-General referring the foregoing memorial to a committee, &c.,..
December 31. Resolution of the States-General to write to the Kings of Sweden and Denmark to the same purport
as to the King of France on the 18th December, respecting the conduct of the English, &c.,................

....

1665.

January 7. Resolution of the States-General referring letters from their Ambassador at London to a committee,..

January 8. Secret resolution of the States-General to write to their Ambassador at Paris respecting the accommo-

dation of the differences with England, the restitution of New Netherland, &c.,.

January 30. Resolution of the States-General to write to the different Boards of Admiralty, &c., that the States are

obliged to come to an open rupture with England, &c.,......

January 30. Letter of the States-General to the West India Company respecting reprisals against England, &c.,..........

February 6. Resolution of the States-General authorizing the West India Company to do all the harm they can to

England, &c.,

.....

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