New Netherland Council Dutch Colonial Administrative Records

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Overview of the Records

Repository
New York State Archives
222 Madison Avenue
Albany, NY 12230
Summary
This series contains patents issued under the administration of Dutch Governor Anthony Colve, and a few private deeds from the same period. In one notable document, Governor Colve granted the Lutheran congregation in Albany free exercise of their religion (September 26, 1673).
Title
Dutch colonial administrative records
Quantity
1.5 cubic feet; 1 microfilm roll 35 mm
Inclusive Dates
Series Number
A1881
Creator
Arrangement

Chronological by date.

Scope and Content Note

This series contains patents issued under the administration of Dutch Governor Anthony Colve, and a few private deeds from the same period. In one notable document, Governor Colve granted the Lutheran congregation in Albany free exercise of their religion (September 26, 1673).

Alternate Formats Available

Microfilm is available at the New York State Archives.

Vol. 23: pp. 1-270 only [Aug. 1673 - July 1674] translated and published in: Edmund B. O'Callaghan, ed. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, vol. 2 (Albany: Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858), pp. 569-730.

Vol. 23: pp. 277-433 only [1673-1674; English-language documents only] published in: Hugh Hastings, ed. Third Annual Report of the State Historian of the State of New York, 1897. Transmitted to the Legislature March, 1898 (Assembly Document no. 68), Appendix L (pp. 157-215) (Albany: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co., 1898).

Series A1894, Council papers, contains additional volumes of the "Colonial Manuscripts."

Other Finding Aids

Folder list.

Item list: E.B. O'Callaghan's Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State (1866), 2:28-31.

Custodial History

Religious Freedom for Lutherans (document). This item was removed from the series (Colonial Manuscripts, Volume 23, p. 86-87) as part of the Freedom Train exhibit that traveled the state from January 1949 to February 1950 (L. 1948, Ch. 659). During 2000/2001 the item was reintegrated with the rest of the series.

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