Document: Order to Dirck Smith, provisional commander on the South river, to appear before the council

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0184a

Description

Order. Dirck Smith, provisional commander on the South river, to appear before the council.

Document Date

1655-11-30

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-11-30

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

[ Ultimo November 1655 ]

[ Present at the meeting the noble, honorable ] Petrus Stuyvesant, and [ the honorable members of the council ], Nicasius de Sille, Lamontagne [ and ] the lord fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven.

It has been resolved and deemed necessary to summon the present provisional commander on the South River of New Netherland, important reasons inducing the director general and councilors thereto. Done at the session held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra.[1]

Translation Superscripts

[1]: See NYCD, 12:118, for other translation.

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_V06_0184a.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.