Text Copies of deeds and records relating to the Townsend family, page 172. The April 16, 1663 letter from the Dutch West India Company ordering Peter Stuyvesant to permit religious activities beyond those the authorized Dutch Reformed Church; the letter was written as a result of John Bowne's appeal to the Company after being deported by Stuyvesant to the Netherlands for holding Quaker meetings. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of leaf 61. The report of Richard Everett and Nathaniel Denton, magistrates of Rustdorp (now Jamaica), to Peter Stuyvesant regarding John Townsend and several other inhabitants who had refused to swear to report on any Quaker activity in the town. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of leaf 60. Peter Stuyvesant's letter to the inhabitants of Rustdorp (continued). View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, verso of leaf 35. Peter Stuyvesant's March 26, 1658 directives to appoint new town officers for Flushing, to prohibit town meetings and to establish a council of seven tribunes instead, to institute a tax for supporting a Dutch Reformed minister, and to require the inhabitants to swear to obey the Dutch colonial government or leave the colony within six weeks. View Item
Text Genealogy of the Townsend family, recto of leaf 26. Peter Stuyvesant's reception of the Flushing remonstrance. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Peter Stuyvesant land grant [English translation], January 18, 1662 Late 18th or early 19th century English translation of a Dutch land grant from Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherlands, to Rutger Joesten Van Brunt for land at New Utrecht; Cornelis Van Ruyven, secretary. View Item
Image Text 2 Items Peter Stuyvesant land grant, January 18, 1662. Late 18th or early 19th century copy of a land grant from Peter Stuyvesant, Director General of New Netherlands, to Rutger Joesten Van Brunt for land at New Utrecht; Cornelis Van Ruyven, secretary. View Item
Image Collection 17 Items Long Island (N.Y.) property records and legal documents, 1662-1874. Collection of 15 items chiefly relating to land in Long Island, N.Y. Includes deeds, indentures, and other documents relating to land sales including a land grant from Peter Stuyvesant and material relating to Capt. John Scott's fraudulent land sales. Also includes other legal documents relating to criminal and civil proceedings. View Collection
Text Graftschrift voor Petrús Stúyvesant, after 1672 Epitaph for Peter Stuyvesant, the last director-general of the colony of the New Netherlands, who died in 1672. View Item
Text Peter Stuyvesant property deed to Manuel de Spangie, January 18, 1651 In 1649, Manuel de Spangie [or de Spanje], an enslaved man, purchased his freedom from his owner, Phillip Jansz Ringo, thus becoming one of the earliest free Blacks in New Amsterdam. Two years later, this property transaction would also make him one of Manhattan's earliest Black landowners. View Item
Text Legal document issued to Peter Stuyvesant, April 28, 1648 Writ of mandamus, April 28, 1648, concerning the case of Cornelis Melyn and Jochem Pietersz Cuyter, Dutch settlers who suffered losses due to the war "waged by Director Kieft unjustly and contrary to all international law" against the Native Americans. Willem Kieft was the Director of the New Netherlands from 1638 to 1647. He persecuted and massacred Native Americans, and subsequent retaliations led to Kieft's War, with devastating losses on both sides. When Melyn and Cuyter sent a petition to the Netherlands complaining about Kieft, they were banished by Peter Stuyvesant. View Item