Piece of Eight – The Spanish dollar or “piece of eight” became an international currency in the 16th century as the volume of international trade...

Hans Bontemantel was a director of the Dutch West India Company’s Amsterdam Chamber, which supervised the governance of New Netherland. In addition to official correspondence,...

Collected on this page are the manuscript images, transcription, and translation of the Govert Loockermans Correspondence and Papers, N.D., 1647-1700 (Series XXII of the Stuyvesant-Rutherfurd...

Antony de Hooges served as business manager of Rensselaerswijck, beginning somewhere between March 1645 and February 1646 and running through March 1648. De Hooges recorded...

Manuscript Images

Manuscript Images

Manuscript Images    

Important General Considerations Spelling Standards – ij is expressed as y – Name endings ss, sz., or sen have been standardized to sz – When...

A comprehensive bibliography highlighting scholarship on slavery, African American life, intercultural relations, and the Atlantic Creole experience in New Netherland and Colonial New York. These works explore the roles of Africans and African Americans in the Dutch Atlantic world, from early settlement and cultural exchange to resistance, emancipation, and legacy.

Translation from Van Laer, Register of the Provincial Secretary, Volume I, 1638-1642, doc. 91, pg. 123 [This document and the entirety of Volume I was lost in the...

Translation from Van Laer, Council Minutes, Volume IV, 1638-1649, docs. 83-85, pgs. 97-100 Anno 1641. In the Name of GodOn Thursday, being the 17th of January Cornelio...

On January 24, 1641, Manuel de Gerrit de Reus survived a failed hanging. Spectators saw it as divine intervention and successfully petitioned the Council to spare his life.