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INVENTORY of papers sent to Petrus Stuyvesant

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Inventory of the papers and enclosures going herewith to the honorable lord general Petrus Stuyvesant aboard the galiot De Hoop with skipper Jan Pietersz Poppen.

No. 1 An original letter dated the 15th of November 1664 dispatched with the Company’s ship De Musch and now sent aboard the aforesaid galiot.[1]

  • Another ditto.[2]
  • Another ditto from the Company to the director on the Zuyt Revier.[3]
  • A duplicate dated the 1lth of December 1664 sent by way of St. Christofel.[4]
  • An original letter dated the 16th of April 1665.[5]
  • Another ditto.[6]
  • An extract from a journal about what the English did on the coast of Guinea.[7]
  • A copy of an extract about what transpired in the meeting of eight English ships of the English Royal Company by the vice-admiral De Ruyter at the island of Cabo Verde.[8]
  • Ditto order or summons concerning ditto passed on the Company.[9]
  • Copy of the report and deposition made here by the commander of Bonairo about the damage caused by an English privateer at Bonaira.[10]
  • Copy of a proclamation serving to notify all Holland ships about the aforesaid privateer.[11]
  • Account of that which Monsieur Balthasar Stuyvesant delivered into the Company’s magazine here.[12]

[ Verso: ] Inventory of enclosures.

Notes

See 17:94.
See 17:96.
This letter to Alexander d’Hinojossa does not survive.
See 17:101.
See 17:103.
See 17:104.
See 17:88.
See 17:89.
See 17:92.
Does not survive.
See 17:104.
See 17:105.

References

Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., Curaçao Papers, 1640-1665 (New Netherland Research Center and the New Netherland Institute: 2011).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.