Translation
Order to the Dutch towns to send delegates to New Orange to confer with the governor
Schout Jacob Strycker.
You are hereby required and ordered to notify the Dutch Towns situate In your
district, to commission each of them a Militia officer and Magistrate from their
respective Towns, with whom you will repair, on Monday next at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, to the City Hall of this city, when I intend to have some conference with
you on the present state of the country.
Whereupon relying, I remain
| Your friend, | |||
| Done Fort Willem Hendrick, 22nd March, 1674. | (Signed), | A. Colve. | |
A similar order is also transmitted to the Schouts of the Towns of Bergen and Haerlem.
References
Translation: O'Callaghan, E.B., trans./ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, vol. 2 (Albany: Weed, Parsons: 1858), pp. 569-730 (vol. 23, pp. 1-270 only).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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