Document: Minute of councillor De la Montagne's offer to go to Fort Orange as commissary

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0148

Description

Minute. Offer of councillor De la Montagne to go to Fort Orange as commissary.

Document Date

1656-08-22

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-08-22

Document Type

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Minute

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Translation

Present in council the honorable lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant and the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille and La Montagne.

Having read the above letter of the magistrates of Fort Orange and having taken in consideration who to best send there at the present time, lord Montagne offers his services to depart for that place as commies, if he will be judged qualified thereto; which, being deliberated upon by the director general and first councilor, they have been unable to find a better or more capable person for the present time; therefore they have allowed him the aforesaid position as commies of Fort Orange and it is resolved that the lord general journey up there with the lord La Montagne when the ship the Otter arrives, which is expected any day, in order to install him in the aforesaid office. Done at Fort Amsterdam in N. Netherland. Dated as above.

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_V08_0148.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.