New York Colony Council Papers
Item
Country
US
Name of institution (official language of the state)
Language of name of institution
eng
Contact information: postal address
New York State Education Department, Cultural Education Center, Albany, NY 12230
Contact information: phone number
001 (518) 474-8955 (reference services)
Contact information: web address
Contact information: email
archinfo@nysed.gov (general)
archref@nysed.gov (reference services)
archref@nysed.gov (reference services)
Reference number
A1894
Type of reference number
Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state)
New York Colony Council Papers
Language of title
eng
Creator / accumulator
New York Colony Council
Date(s)
1664/1781
Date note
Includes copies of records prior to this period.
Language(s)
dut
eng
fra
Extent
12 linear metres (144 volumes)
Type of material
Textual Material
Scope and content
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.
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.
Archival history
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.
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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System of arrangement
Records are arranged chronologically. Oversize records are in a separate chronology.
Access, restrictions
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:
High-resolution images of selected original documents in this series are available on:
Links to finding aids
Author of the description
Carla Vieira, 2023
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