The New York State Archives Partnership Trust invites the public to attend a free theatrical production about women’s suffrage, Petticoats of Steel, on Wednesday, March 1 at 5:00 p.m. at the Strand Center Theatre at 25 Brinkerhoff Street in Plattsburgh.
The project's primary goal is to make seventeenth century Dutch colonial records held by the New York State Archives available online. The records are among the earliest administrative records documenting the European colonization of the region that now forms all or part of the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Connecticut. The records also play a critical role in documenting the ascension of the Netherlands to its status as the premier trading nation of the world during the seventeenth century.
This series consists of writs of appeal, in Dutch, from judgments made by the courts of New Amsterdam, Oostdurp (Westchester), Heemsteede, New Amstel, Wiltwyck (in the Esopus), Flushing (on Long Island), and Fort Orange. Writs of appeal were granted by the Council of the Colony of New York in response to petitions, usually submitted by one party in a civil action. The records in this series also include summonses and writs of mandamus.
The New York State Archives is part of the Office of Cultural Education, an office of the New York State Education Department.