Document: Appointment of Jacob Kip to be secretary or clerk to the burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0099b

Description

Appointment. Jacob Kip to be secretary or clerk to the burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam.

Document Date

1653-01-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1653-01-27

Document Type

Appointment

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Appointment

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Translation

Jacob Kip has been selected and commissioned to serve in the position of secretary or clerk for the mayors and schepens of New Amsterdam, for which he shall earn annually the sum of 350 guilders, that is to say 100 ryks dollars, beginning this coming first of February; and he is promised, if the lords-mayors should send another to replace him, that he shall be granted an honest position and salary.

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_V05_0099b.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.