This updated guide to Dutch manuscripts on New Netherland catalogs primary sources across U.S. repositories, with descriptions, locations, and some links to online translations, transcriptions, and images.
Since 1974, over 7,000 pages of Dutch colonial records have been translated and published in twelve volumes. This collection presents the introductions from the New Netherland Documents series.
The Register contains a wide range of legal documents—from land deeds and commercial contracts to marriage agreements and criminal declarations—offering a rich record of personal, civil, and economic life.
Volume II of the Register of the Provincial Secretary offers van Laer’s translations of 17th-century Dutch records, reorganized by O’Callaghan and preserved in the New York State Archives.
PDF – Volume 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 translation (published book images) PDF – Volume 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 transcription...
PDF – Volume 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 transcription PDF – Volume 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 translation (scanned book images) This volume of Council Minutes contains the earliest...
PDF – Volume 5 – Council Minutes, 1652-1654 translation (scanned book images) The council minutes document civil and criminal cases, as well as executive and...
PDF – Volume VI: Council Minutes, 1655–1656 Purchase the translation of Volume 6 (published book) from Syracuse University Press here
PDF – Volume 8, Council Minutes, 1656-1658 (published book) Purchase the translation of Volume 8 (published book) from Syracuse University Press here
PDF – Volume 11, Correspondence, 1647-1653 translation (scanned book images) This collection of official correspondence records the first six years of Petrus Stuyvesant’s tenure as...
