Document: Appointment of Foppe Jansen to be commissary to the expedition against the Swedes

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0079b

Description

Appointment. Foppe Jansen to be commissary to the above expedition.

Document Date

1655-08-19

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-08-19

Document Type

Appointment

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Appointment

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Translation

At the session it was deemed necessary to appoint a capable person as provisional commissary to take care and supervise that all munitions and foodstuffs necessary for the planned expedition (which the director general and councilors shall provide him in a list) be ordered, transported, and properly maintained; for which Foppe Jansen was judged capable, who, appearing at the session, accepted the same and promised by oath administered by the lord director general to aquit himself with industry and loyalty in the aforesaid office. Ady ut supra, 19 August 1655.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0079b.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.