Document: Order to confine Jan de Jongh (John Young) on board the ship King Solomon

30 March 1654, N. Amsterdam.

At the session of the honorable director-general and high council it has been resolved and decided that Jan de Jongh presently detained at the house of Lourens Cornelissen shall be taken by the fiscal to the ship, de Coninck Salomon, where the aforesaid Jongh shall remain in detention with the skipper in the master's cabin until further orders. Done as above; below was the notation: The above resolution shall not be executed until expiration of his security; and was signed; P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, C. van Werckhoven, La Montangne.

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