Document: Appointment of matron to the hospital at New Amsterdam

Considering the little care that the Company’s soldiers, at least many of them, enjoy when they become sick or ill, and furthermore the remonstrance dated the 12th of this month handed in at the meeting by the chirurgijn master Jacob Hendricx for the better accommodation and care of the ill soldiers, it is considered necessary to engage a capable female who will help the soldiers when they are ill, and who at the same time will have the supervision of the boarding house or hospital that was ordered for the ill soldiers. Hillitje Wilburch, wife of Tobias Wilburch Adelborst, presented herself for this; she is engaged for it and granted a hundred guilders annually for the work to be done by her. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above.

P Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille

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