A talk in which New Netherland Research Center director Dr. Charles Gehring discussed the Center's promotion of scholarship and dissemination of knowledge of the seventeenth-century Dutch colony of New Netherland, presented by the Friends of the New York State Library on November 28, 2012.

A documentary DVD about the New Netherland Project, where more than 18 volumes of the official archives of New Netherland have been transcribed, translated, and published to date, and its connection with modern times.

This volume of land papers from the “Colonial Manuscripts” in the New York State Archives comprises translations of three Dutch record books lettered GG, HH...

This collection of official documents pertaining to the administration of the Delaware region ends with the seizure of New Netherland from the Dutch in 1664. It is the first of two published translations that comprise volumes 18 to 21.

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...