Translation
Resolution of the States General recalling Director General Stuyvesant
[ ] lords States General of the United Netherlands.
Saturday, 27 April 1652
Upon consideration, it is resolved and concluded to write to Petrus Stuyvesant, director general in New Netherland, to repair hither on receipt of the despatch, in order to give their High Mightinesses circumstantial and pertinent information of the true and actual condition of the country; also, of the boundary line between the English and Dutch there; extract of this, their High Mightinesses' resolution, shall be sent to the presiding chamber of the West India Company at Amsterdam, for its information. It was enacted, Johan van Reed[ ].
Below was written:
It agrees with the aforesaid register
and was signed: N. Ruysch
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