Document: Letter from Director Stuyvesant to Andries Hudde

Letter. Director Stuyvesant to [Andries Hudde]; is astonished at the Swedes purchasing the land around Fort Nassau on the South river, and at the Schuylkill; approves of the purchase of the land above the fort [see vol. 18, p. 9]; Thomas Broen and others permitted to purchase land above the fort from the natives; design of the Swedes to intercept the Indian trade to Fort Orange; approves proposition to purchase the country from Narraticon creek to Delaware bay (certified copy).