Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

Letter. Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; bad situation of the country; general alarm among the settlers on Long Island; visits Breuckelen, Midwout and Amesfoort; siege of Esopus; failure to raise volunteers; draft in New Amsterdam; Stuyvesant proceeds with reinforcements to the Esopus; siege raised; heavy freshet; English designs in the neighborhood of Fort Orange; reinforcements, &c., demanded.