Document: Minute of proceedings of the council, burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam, on being informed of the director-general's intention to go to Curaçao

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NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0449

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Minute. Proceedings of the council, burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam, on being informed of the director-general's intention to go to Curaçao.

Document Date

1654-12-08

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-12-08

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Minutes

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Minute

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Translation

At the session, present: the honorable councillors, Nicasius de Sille, La Montangne and Cornelis van Thienhooven, fiscal; together with the mayors and schepens of this city, namely, Marten Crigier, mayor; and Poulus Leenders, Willem Beeckman and Oloff Stevensz, schepens.

Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant proposes the necessity of his departure for Curacao.

That his honor would send all record books, letters and papers concerning governmental matters, and now kept by him, to the secretary's office, to be arranged and put into the best possible order by Fiscal Thienhooven and Secretary Cornelis van Ruyven.

That it be resolved to increase the present number of mayors and schepens of this city by one mayor and one schepen.

Translation Superscripts

[221]: The responses to Stuyvesant's proposals appear in the left margin. They have been rearranged by the editor to follow each proposal.
[222]: See The Records of New Amsterdam, 1653-1674, edited by Berthold Fernow, 7 vols., 1897 (reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1976), 1:271 for the city's record of this proposal and response.

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_0449.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.