Document: Letter from the directors at Amsterdam to Director General Petrus Stuyvesant

Amsterdam. Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant; send letters to the people of New Netherland, warning them against the late delegates to Holland; Melyn's unfounded reports; abuses in land granting; Van Twiller's extravagant grants to himself and others; Long island; Raritans; Kill van Koll; boundaries; Katskill; Rensselaersstein; pretensions of Van Renselaer's agent; right of the company to Fort Orange; free navigation of the rivers; baron Van der Capelle's proposed colonie; rev. Megapolensis' tract; emigration; Mohawk invasion of Canada; French prisoners; Van Twiller; emigration to Curaçao; samples of indigo promised; Stuyvesant purchases a bouwery from the company; deed sent (see vol. 3, p. 87). [1651]