Document: Notice to burghers of New Amsterdam to lodge as many married soldiers as they conveniently can at a certain rate

[several lines lost] [ ] the ship de St. Jan, a group of [ soldiers ] from the fatherland arrived and more are [ expected ] still with [ the next ] ships, among whom are various married people who have their wives and children with them, who cannot very well all be lodged in the fort together with the garrison that is here at present. It is hereby made known and announced that the director general and councilors of N: Netherland consented, as they hereby consent to the soldiers who are married and have their wives or children with them, that they may look for a boarding house within this city, and, having found one, agree with the owner about the rent of it. To facilitate this rent the aforesaid director general and councilors promise to pay to the aforesaid soldiers or to the lessor himself, if he stipulates or desires so, ten stivers a week for billet money, every month or at the end of a quarter year, at the lessor’s choice. Therefore, everyone is requested and ordered to accommodate the aforesaid soldiers as much and for as civil a price as possible. Done in Fort Amsterdam in N: Netherland, the 11th of March 1658.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman

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