1773-1774 Dirk Vanderheyden to Evert Bancker, London-New York City, Transatlantic Stampless Ship Letter,

Cover marked ICT, ship marking named in letter as Captain Smith of the Little Susan. Written by Dirk Van der Heyden in London October 21, 1773 to Evert Banker, "Merchant at New York."  Mention also made that a letter also was sent to Jacob C. Ten Eyck in Albany requesting proper registration documents.  January, 1774 docketing indicates this letter arrived in NY between the December, 1774 Boston Tea Party and the undisguised April, 1774 New York Tea Party.  The Coercive/Intolerable Acts were passed by Parliament in May, 1775, which radically changed transatlantic shipping commerce. Dirck Van Der Heyden (variant Dirck Vanderheyden), Letter writer:  Unable to locate an English Dirk that might be part of the English political & merchant family. but the eldest son of prominent Albany merchant and judge David Vanderheyden who died in 1771 was named Dirk Van der Heyden and could fit this timeline, if he were an American colonial acting as a consigning agent in London at this time. Evert