Document: Dutch colonial council minutes, 3-24 June 1638

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1809-78_V04_p011
Description

Appointment of Cornelis van Tienhoven to be provincial secretary; Hendrick Pietersen to be master mason; Hendrick Gerritsen, Peter Petersen and Lourens Laurensen, company's servants; Claes van Elsland, commissary; Jan Jansen, gunner in fort Amsterdam; Jan Dircksen, assistant gunner; Tomas Walraven, carpenter; Jacob Stoffelsen, overseer; Jan Petersen, barber at the south; Adriaen Dircksen, assistant commissary at Fort Orange; Dirck Stipel, quartermaster at Fort Orange; Gillis Pietersen, master carpenter; Nicolas Koorn , drill serjeant, and Jurian Rudolff, serjeant. (cont'd) [1638];Court proceedings. Cors Pietersen vs. Adam Roelantsen, for recovery of his wife's share of her deceased mother's estate; judgment for plaintiff. [1638];Order that Jan Schepmoes entertain no more sailors nor tap wine hereafter on pain of banishment. [1638];Court proceedings. Wolphert Gerritsen vs. Jan Evertsen. Cornelis Lambertsen Cool vs. Cornelis and Jan van Vorst, in an action of debt. [1638];Order granting freemen patents for the lands they are cultivating, on condition that at the end of ten years they pay yearly the tenth of all their crops, and also a couple of capons yearly for house and garden. [1638]

Document Date
1638-06-03 to 1638-06-24
Document Date (Date Type)
1638-06-03
Document Type
Minutes
Appointment
Document Type Unlinked
Minutes
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Translation
Translation

[ On the 24th of June ] [1]

[ Whereas the master ] house-carpenter [ Is about to leave for the fatherland and ] there are but few carpenters here fit to succeed in his place; therefore, having observed the ability [ of ] C-illis Pietersen van [ der ] Gouw, we have appointed him master carpenter, at fl. 38 a month, from the 1st of June anno 1638.

Nicolaes Coorn is engaged as sergeant at fl. 18 a month and fl. 100 a year for board, from the 15th of September anno 1638, as it is necessary to have someone to drill the soldiers in the proper use of arms.

Jeuriaen Rodolff is engaged as sergeant in the place of Coorn, at fl. 18 a month and fl. 100 for board, on the 7th of December anno 1638.[2]

On the 10th of June

Cors Pietersen, plaintiff, vs. Adam Boelantsen, defendant, regarding the inheritance of the late Adam Roelantsen's wife, who is the plaintiff 's wife's mother. The court having examined the inventory signed by the notary and witnesses and all debts, claims, and furniture, etc. being deducted, it is decided that 12 gl. 10 st. are still due to Cors Pietersen and no more.

Jan Schepmoes ordered henceforth not to lodge any sailors or to tap wine, on pain, In case he acts contrary thereto, of being obliged to leave the Manhattes, It being recommended that he support himself by farming.

On the 24th ditto

Wolphert Gerrltsen, plaintiff, vs. Jan Evertsen, defendant. Default.

Cornelis Lambertsen Cool, plaintiff, vs. Cornelis van Vorst, defendant, for payment of fl. 4. Default.

Cornelis Lambertsen Cool, plaintiff, vs. Jan van Vorst, defendant, for payment of fl. 25. Default.

Various free men having petitioned the council for grants of the land which they at present cultivate, the request of the petitioners is granted, provided that at the expiration of ten years after taking possession of their plantations they shall pay yearly to the Company one-tenth of all the produce which God shall grant to the soil; also, for the house and garden from now on yearly one pair of capons.[3]

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Date supplied from Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New York, 14:9.
[2]: Nicolaes Coorn was reduced to the ranks on December 2, 1638. See the entry in the minutes under that date.
[3]: Revised from Laws and Ordinances of New Netherland, p. 16.
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_V04_p011.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.

Location
Modern Location
Manhattan, NY
Albany, NY
Locations (Unlinked)
Fort Amsterdam
Fort Orange
Related Ancestors (Unlinked)
Cornelis van Tienhoven
Hendrick Pietersen
Hendrick Gerritsen
Peter Petersen
Lourens Laurensen
Claes van Elsland
Jan Jansen
Jan Dircksen
Tomas Walraven
Jacob Stoffelsen
Jan Petersen
Adriaen Dircksen
Dirck Stipel
Gillis Pietersen
Nicolas Koorn
Jurian Rudolff
Cors Pietersen
Adam Roelantsen
Jan Schepmoes
Wolphert Gerritsen
Jan Evertsen
Cornelis Lambertsen Cool
Cornelis and Jan van Vorst
A1809 Additional Party
Dutch Colonial Council
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Council Dutch Colonial Council Minutes (Series A1809 _ 1638-1665)
Box
1
Volume
4
Item
11
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11408