English translations of Dutch Surinam records, NL-HaNA 1.05.03, inv. 558 (1664–1695)

This dataset contains digitised English translations of seventeenth-century Dutch documents relating to the colony of Surinam, held in the Nationaal Archief (National Archives of the Netherlands), The Hague, archive NL-HaNA 1.05.03, inventory number 558. The material includes printed proclamations, resolutions of the States General and the States of Zeeland, financial accounts of expeditions to Surinam, contracts and charters for the Society of Suriname, and detailed narrative reports from the colonial government. It covers topics such as the cession of Surinam, Dutch–English diplomatic negotiations, the departure of English inhabitants, colonial administration, finance and provisioning, and plantation society. The documents span approximately 1664–1695. Each row in the dataset (in the future CSV version) will represent a single document-level unit (e.g. proclamation, resolution, account, memorandum, narrative report, or similar item).