LETTER from Matthias Beck, vice-director of Curaçao to Petrus Stuyvesant

Description taken from published index: "Curaçao. Letter. Vice-director Beck to director Stuyvesant ; reduction of the Swedes at the Delaware ; difficulties with the Indians in New Netherland ; advance state of the crops on the island ; scarcity of food ; cotton crop short ; goats and sheep imported ; Laurence van Ruyven, commissary ; secretary Verellen discharged ; more negroes required, only 20 on the island ; want of rain."
Identifier
NYSA_A1883-78_V17_023
Date Original
December 24 1655
Contributor
Beck, Matthias
Source
New York State Archives. New York (Colony). Council. Curaçao records, 1640-1665. Series A1883-78. Volume 17, document 23, page 1, side 1.
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Special Project
Mutual Cultural Heritage Project

Geographic Locations

Curaçao
Aruba