Document: Inventory

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NYSA_A0270-78_V3_087g
Description

Inventory of the personal effects of Jan Dircksen. [1651]

Document Date
1651-07-11
Document Date (Date Type)
1651-07-11
Document Type

Translation
Translation

Inventory of what was found in the chest of Jan Dircksen who died on the ship 't Hoff van Cleeff

Thus done and found by us, the undersigned, on the island

of Manh[ atans ] in New Netherland, at the house of Claes van

Elslant, court messenger, this 29th of June A° 1651.

All the aforesaid goods were by us jointly appraised at

sixty guilders, as above written, we having been appointed thereto

by the honorable council of New Netherland, on condition of paying

the same by draft to the heirs of the deceased in the fatherland.

Actum, Manhatans in New Netherland, this [10th]1 of July A° 1651.

La Montagne
J: v: Curler

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/A0270/NYSA_A0270-78_V3_087g.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 3, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660 (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.

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