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Peter Stuyvesant fonds [textual record]

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Date:

1660.

Reference:

R2257-0-0-E, MG18-H32, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

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Item ID number:

100975

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Peter Stuyvesant fonds
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Date(s):

1660.

Place of creation:

New York (State)

Extent:

0.2 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Fonds consists of a letter written in Dutch, from La Montagne, the vice-director of Fort Orange, to Peter Stuyvesant and the Council, Fort Orange reporting on the Indian attack upon the French at Long Sault. Photocopy, 4 pages.

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Stuyvesant, Peter, 1602-1682

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Stuyvesant, Peter, 1602-1682 : Peter Stuyvesant was the last Dutch governor of New York (New Netherlands) before it was taken by the English in 1664. He participated actively in the founding of Fort Orange (Albany).

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General note:

A translation of the letter from La Montagne to Peter Stuyvesant was published in New York Colonial Documents, volume XIII, p. 175.
Received in 1958 from Jaques Rousseau.

Location of originals note:

Copied from originals with the New York Colonial Manuscripts, Office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y.
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Indians of North America - Canada - Wars - ca.1600-1763, 1660 Long Sault (Ont.), 1660

Le Montagne

Indians of North America - Canada - Wars - ca.1600-1763, 1660

La Montagne - Correspondence, 1660

Ontario - History - To 1791, 1660
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MG18-H32
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