Research

1

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of minutes, in Dutch, documenting civil and criminal cases, and executive and legislative matters over which the Council of the Colony of New York had jurisdiction. The minutes constitute a record of such actions as appointments, proclamations, ordinances, charters, and opinions. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

2

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of minutes, in Dutch, documenting civil and criminal cases, and executive and legislative matters over which the Council of the Colony of New York had jurisdiction. The minutes constitute a record of such actions as appointments, proclamations, ordinances, charters, and opinions. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

3

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series contains administrative correspondence, in Dutch, of Petrus Stuyvesant during his seventeen year term as director-general of the colony of New Netherland from 1647-1664. The bulk of the series consists of incoming letters from the directors in Amsterdam and the governors of neighboring colonies. .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

4

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of ordinances, laws, and regulations enacted by the Council of the Colony of New York to govern and maintain order in the communities of New Netherland. The records, written in the Dutch language, address personal behavior; community standards in such areas as fire prevention, construction, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

5

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series contains legal and administrative records that document the Dutch settlement of Fort Orange, which eventually became Albany, New York. The records, in Dutch, include real estate transactions, such as conveyances of property from one individual to another, conditions of sale, conditions of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

6

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists of writs of appeal, in Dutch, from judgments made by the courts of New Amsterdam, Oostdurp (Westchester), Heemsteede, New Amstel, Wiltwyck (in the Esopus), Flushing (on Long Island), and Fort Orange. Writs of appeal were granted by the Council of the Colony of New York in response .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

7

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series contains letters, minutes, and other administrative documents, in Dutch, created by the West India Company during its struggle to dominate trade and establish trading posts on the South (Delaware) River. The records, generated in the Delaware region and sent to New Amsterdam, largely relate .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

8

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series consists predominantly of land patents, in Dutch, through which the director-general and council of New Netherland allowed private individuals to take possession of land in freehold, as opposed to the previous policy of only granting permission to hold land for cultivation. Also included .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

9

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series contains patents issued under the administration of Dutch Governor Anthony Colve, and a few private deeds from the same period. In one notable document, Governor Colve granted the Lutheran congregation in Albany free exercise of their religion (September 26, 1673)..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

10

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

This series contains deeds, in Dutch, recorded by the provincial secretary from September 5, 1652 until October 15, 1653. The provincial secretary was responsible for recording all land transactions in New Netherland. Most of the deeds document the conveyance of real property between private individuals .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

11

Creator:

New Netherland. Council

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

The Cura?ao records, in Dutch, document the West India Company's activities in the Caribbean during the seventeenth century; supply information about the administration of affairs on Cura?ao; and depict the commercial relationship between the islands and New Netherland. The series includes administrative .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

12

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

In the name of the Lord. Amen. First of May 1656. Monday.1.........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

13

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

I, the undersigned Hendrick Huygen van Cleeff, sent out by the South Company in Sweden in the ship Mercurius as their commies, not knowing before my arrival at the South River of N. Netherland of the changes which had taken place there since my departure, promise by this my signature in place of oath, .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

14

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

Petrus Stuyvesant, on behalf of the honorable high might: the lords States General and the honorable lords directors of the general Chartered West India Company of the United Netherlands director general of New Netherland, Curaçao, Bonayro, Aruba and the territories depending thereon, together with .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

15

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

[several lines lost].........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

16

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

[several lines lost] response the aforesaid Maria to make restitution for ordinary and extraordinary was summoned and given notice which remains in contempt; also, having received her frivolous and false accusations against the director .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

17

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

16 May Copy..........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

18

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

The traders and merchants are hereby informed that the recognition of the remitted four per hundred, as well as the 30 stivers per hundred of tobacco, is to be paid at the general office of the secretary in current monies as is current in the fatherland, or, by lack thereof, in commodities needed by .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

19

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

The director general and councilors, with the advice of the burgomasters and field officers of the burgher corps, hereby notify and warn everyone that from now henceforward no person shall harbor any wilden during the night between this place and the Fresh Water, under the penalty of .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives

 

20

Creator:

New Netherland. Council.

 

 

Title:  

 

Abstract:  

Everyone is hereby given notice that the Company’s books of accounts shall be closed at the end of this month of June, whereby all merchants, factors, skippers, traders, freepersons, and Company servants are hereby warned that they have 14 days from this date to bring in and submit, and to show by honest .........

 

Repository:  

New York State Archives