Document: Letter from Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam

Letter. Stuyvesant to the directors at Amsterdam; sick; decline of trade at Fort Orange; settlers removing from the South river to Maryland, Virginia and the Manhattans; lord Baltimore; boundaries; commissioners from Boston at Fort Orange; their designs; "so many hounds are death to the hare;" settlement on Wappingers kill recommended; emigration; Indian murders midway between Fort Orange and Hartford, and at Mespat; causes thereof, and remedy; reinforcements sent to Esopus.