Document: Order for the arrest and imprisonment of Maria Verlett for contempt

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0010a

Description

Order. For the arrest and imprisonment of Maria Verlett for contempt, in not answering complaint of Joost van Beecq (see vol. 6, pp. 363, 364).

Document Date

1656-05-03

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-05-03

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

[several lines lost] response [ ] the aforesaid Maria [ ] to make restitution for [ ] ordinary and extraordinary [ ] was summoned and given notice [ ] which [ ] remains in contempt; also, having received her frivolous and false accusations against the director general and councilors and their fiscal, submitted the 2nd of this month, the director general and councilors order and command their fiscal to secure the aforesaid Maria Varleth in the ordinary place of confinement and at the appropriate time to bring proceedings against her according to law. Done at Fortress Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above. (was signed)

P. Stuyvesant.

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_0010a.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.