Volume 9 covers the period from 1660 to 1661, and it includes 951 manuscript pages which document the meetings of the Director General and Councilors, chaired by Director General Petrus Stuyvesant. They consist of criminal cases, which fell under the exclusive jurisdiction of the colonial government, civil cases in appeal after a first judgment in subordinate benches of justice, and administrative matters. Some of the subjects that come up frequently are Dutch relations with their English subjects on Long Island as well as the expansion of trade with Virginia and New England. Activities in the city of Amsterdam's colony on the Delaware River (Nieuwer Amstel) are also well-represented in this collection as is the growth of the city government in New Amsterdam. Continuing efforts to absorb the colonists of the former New Sweden colony and to control that territory are also found here. Finally, requests to Director General and Councilors from ordinary citizens of New Netherland shed a great deal of light on daily life for the Dutch inhabitants of the colony.

This translation is made possible by the generous support of the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames.

Covering the period of 1661–1662, this volume contains the correspondence sent and received by New Netherland's Council including to and from the West India Company's directors, other parts of New Netherland, such as Fort Orange, and various English colonies.

Comprising 355 individual letters over a total of 587 manuscript pages, this correspondence is one of the few New Netherland sources that documents a woman speaking in her own voice. All the letters, except one, are in the collection of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

The correspondence, which is entirely in Dutch, stretches from 1680 to Alida's death in 1727. The letters were generally exchanged when Robert was in New York City seeking to advance the family's interests with English authorities, while Alida remained behind in Albany taking care of their business at home. Alida's side of the correspondence represents one of the most significant collections of women's writings in seventeenth and eighteenth century North America, and it gives a great deal of insight into the experience of women in the period. It is also an important source for the continued significance of Dutch language, culture, and connections in the decades after the English conquest.

This translation is made possible by the generous support of the Society of Daughters of Holland Dames.

Established towards the end of the Dutch period, in 1661, Schenectady was on the edge of New Netherland. As such it was a place where different peoples mingled including Haudenosaunee, enslaved Africans, French colonists, and Dutch colonists. In the 1690s, English settlers and soldiers arrived to join this polyglot community. The city's church records were kept in Dutch long after the English Conquest of 1664 and provide a window into the persistence of Dutch language and culture and also into Dutch-Indigenous histories.

This work is made possible by the generosity of Jonathan Dickey, one of whose New Netherland ancestors was an original proprietor of Schenectady.