Document: Notice to all persons to settle their accounts with the company within 15 days, and not to pay or give credit to any one on the company's account

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0012b

Description

Notice. All persons to settle their accounts with the company within 15 days, and not to pay or give credit to any one on the company's account except on proper authority.

Document Date

1656-06-02

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-06-02

Document Type

Notice

Minutes

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Notice

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Translation

Everyone is hereby given notice that the Company’s books of accounts shall be closed at the end of this month of June, whereby all merchants, factors, skippers, traders, freepersons, and Company servants are hereby warned that they have 14 days from this date to bring in and submit, and to show by honest account or order, what is owed them by the director general and councilors; likewise, they also find out and learn from the bookkeeper what they owe to the Company and for what.

Furthermore, everyone is warned to pay or send no one anything on account of the Company except on order of the director general or by receipt of the secretary Cornelis van Ruyven, which shall validate their accounts. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland the 2nd of June 1656.

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_0012b.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.