New York Colony Council Papers
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Country
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US
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Language of name of institution
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eng
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Contact information: postal address
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New York State Education Department, Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230
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Contact information: phone number
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001 (518) 474-8955 (reference services)
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Contact information: email
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archinfo@nysed.gov (general)
archref@nysed.gov (reference services)
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Reference number
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A1894
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Type of reference number
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Archival reference number
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Title (official language of the state)
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New York Colony Council Papers
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Language of title
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eng
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Creator / accumulator
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New York Colony Council
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Date(s)
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1664/1781
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Date note
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Includes copies of records prior to this period.
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Language(s)
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dut
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eng
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fra
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Extent
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12 linear metres (144 volumes)
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Type of material
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Textual Material
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Scope and content
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This series comprises documentation used to support council actions and decisions as recorded in the New York Colony Council Minutes. It reflects the Council's administration of land settlement, economic development, Indian affairs, litigation, and military affairs. Records include correspondence, reports, petitions, orders and warrants created by government officials and private citizens.
This series includes a directive from the Dutch West India Company directors to Governor Peter Stuyvesant on March 13, 1656, allowing Jews to settle in New Netherland and granting them all civil and political liberties.
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Archival history
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About 1850, the Secretary of State's Office, under the supervision of E.B. O'Callaghan, arranged these records chronologically and bound them into 103 volumes entitled "N.Y. Colonial Manuscripts." Documents in the first 101 volumes were individually listed in O'Callaghan's Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the Office of the Secretary of State (1866). This series consists of volumes 22 and 24-102, except those destroyed by the state capitol fire in 1911 (volumes 30-33, 43, 64-69, 71-73, 92, 94-95, 97-98, and 103).
Several surviving volumes suffered severe burn damage in the fire: volumes 44, 46-48, 70, 74-78, 83, 88-91, 93, 96, and 99-102. Of these, 17 volumes (44, 46, 47, 48, 70, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 90, 91, 93, 96, 99, 100, 101) were too extensively damaged to be microfilmed. Some documents have been rebounded into 144 volumes; the rest have remained disbound since the 1911 fire.
Several notable items were removed from the series as part of the Freedom Train exhibit that travelled the state of New York from January 1949 to February 1950.
A1894-98: This accretion resulted from a project by Archives staff in 1998 to integrate estrayed or unidentified records.
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(source: New York State Archives online catalogue)
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System of arrangement
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Records are arranged chronologically. Oversize records are in a separate chronology.
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Access, restrictions
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Originals are restricted due to severe burn damage. Use under the supervision of an archivist after consulting microfilm.
High-resolution images of selected original documents in this series are available on:
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New York State Archives Digital Collections
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Author of the description
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Carla Vieira, 2023
Linked resources
Items with "Collections (official language of the state): New York Colony Council Papers"
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