Amsterdam. Letter. Directors to Stuyvesant; negotiations with the burgomasters of Amsterdam to colonize New Netherland; Van Tienhoven and Van Dyck the cause of the late Indian massacre; Van Dyck to be punished; settlers to dwell in villages; delegation to New England; tenths; Renselaerswyck; revenue; fort New Amsterdam to be encircled with a stone wall; Sinnequen Indians; a jesuit and some Frenchmen in the Sinneques country; Mr. De Decker; bells for the churches of Beverwyck, Midwout and Hempstead; fort Casimir called New Amstel; Jacob Alrichs, director of the city's colonie on the Delaware; fort Christina called Altona, and New Gottenburgh called Kattenburgh; Waldenses going to New Netherland; the country between the Delaware and the Hudson rivers to be purchased; Jacques Cortelyou to survey lots at the Delaware; disease among horses. [1656]
