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...
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.
Translated in A.J.F. van Laer, Council Minutes, 1638-1649, pgs. 212-213 The 25th of February We, Willem Kleft, director general, and the council of New Netherland, having considered...
Emmanuel Pietersen, a free Black man, petitioned the Council in 1643 to legally adopt and raise an orphaned child of two free Black parents—so the boy could inherit property as free.
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...
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.
Translated in A.J.F. van Laer, Council Minutes, 1638-1649, pgs. 212-213 The 25th of February We, Willem Kleft, director general, and the council of New Netherland, having considered...
Emmanuel Pietersen, a free Black man, petitioned the Council in 1643 to legally adopt and raise an orphaned child of two free Black parents—so the boy could inherit property as free.
