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Director General Stuyvesant to Governor Winthrop
[ ] of one purport and date being the 26th. [ ] I understand that through som[ ] very sorrye, In respect I [ ] writt to [ ] it some 14 dayes agoe by a ship that went [ ] is likewise, to have had some agitation with your Commissio[ ] the trade with the natives, which for present must be suspended [ ] are pleased to write Concerning the setling of a firme peace betwene [ ] has begune, allthough there hath bynne some difference in words, I hope [ ] as once thinke of warre betwene us, fore I shall not only desire but prayes [ ]respondencie betwene us and those of New haven and other places, allways p[ ] in incroaching uppon one anothers pr[ ] state they are, untill theire bee [ ] of the diference of limits of the which I intreate you will please to acqu[ ]missioners: soe having not further att present but my humble respects to your self[ ] I take leave and rest
Yours in all offices of love and service
Fort New Amsterdam in New Netherlands
August the 26th 1648. st: no: