New Netherland

Some items from the Dutch-related collections in the State Library and the State Archives have been digitized and are available online:

• New Netherland Institute Online Publications - Digitized versions of translations and transcriptions of documents relating to New Netherland, including government records held by the NYS Archives, private and corporate papers from the collections of the NYS Library, and selected documents from other repositories.
• New York State History - Colonial Period - Selected digital documents, including some from the Dutch colonial period.
• Van Rensselaer Manor Papers - online exhibit
• Facsimile of Pieter Schaghen letter from 1627 that mentions the purchase of Manhattes [Manhattan] Island
• Dutch colonial and early American documents - NYS Archives photographic collections.
• Letter to Governor Peter Stuyvesant in support of religious freedom - Translated in: Correspondence, 1647-1653, trans. and ed. Charles T. Gehring (New Netherland Documents Series. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

The New York State Library's Manuscripts and Special Collections unit has several collections related to the Dutch Colonial period and Dutch families, including the following, for which online finding aids or guides are available:

• Allen Family Papers, 1800-1939
• Bleecker, John N., Papers, 1700-1870
• Bratt Family Papers, 1689-1854
• Brees, John, Papers, 1685-1848
• DeWitt Family Papers, 1750-1890
• Gansevoort, Leonard Papers, 1778-1799
• Kiersted Family Papers, 1727-1875
• Kip Family Papers, 1792-1909
• Livingston, Henry, Collection , 1751-1883 (bulk 1787-1811)
• Lydecker Family Papers, 1860-1983
• Rensselaerwyck Manor Records, 1630-1899
• Schuyler Family Collection, 1679-1823
• Van Bergen Family Papers, 1670-1823
• Van Dyck Family Papers, 1754-1875
• Van Laer, Arnold J.F. (Arnold Johan Ferdinand), Papers, 1908-1952
• Van Rensselaer, Henry I., Papers1698-1814
• Van Schaick Family Papers, 1661-1863
• Van Schaick Papers, 1737-1829
• Van Schaick-Baldwin Papers, 1750-1895
• Van Schaick-Peebles Papers, 1707-1890
• Van Vechten, Abraham Legal Papers, 1686-1867
• Van Vechten, Abraham Papers, 1686-1867
• Van Vechten Family Papers, 1678-1880
• Vander Veer Family Papers, 1860-1935 (bulk 1880-1927)
• Veeder-Vrooman Family Papers, 1662-1925

All online finding aids