Document: Order on a complaint of the fiscal vs. William Brouwer

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Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0226

Description

Order. On a complaint of the fiscal vs. William Brouwer, shoemaker; defendant to pay duty on Russia leather, &c., imported by him, and to make a pair of shoes for the fiscal.

Document Date

1656-09-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-09-27

Document Type

Order

Complaint

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order | Complaint

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Translation

At the session the lord fiscal d’Sille had a small package brought and opened from the ship the Vergulden Otter consigned to Willem Brouwer, schoenmaecker, while on the same manifest as only some shoemakers’ goods were declared; therefore, in Holland no recognition fee was charged, and whereas three pieces of Russian leather[i] and three pieces of Spanish leather, 20 lbs. of shoemaker’s twine, was found therein, which [several lines lost] in Holland [ ] to amount to ƒ40:7:– [ ] paid for recognition fee ƒ3.

Translation Superscripts

[i]: Juchten: Russian red leather.

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_0226.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.