Document: Order to the fiscal to communicate to the burgomasters and schepens

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Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0224a

Description

Order. The fiscal to communicate to the burgomasters and schepens, copy of the answer supra dated 26th inst, and to demand copy of a resolution passed by them in the matter of the marriage of Johannis van Beecq.

Document Date

1654-02-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-02-27

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

The secretary of the director-general and [ high ] council is hereby authorized to go to the inferior court of justice of this city and there to communicate to the schout, mayors and schepens the resolution of the director-general and high council, amplifying and further explaining their instructions given the 26th of February 1654, leaving the authentic copy for their use.[99]

Secondly, whereas Johannis van Beecq has posted an announcement that his marriage has been declared legal and proper by a resolution of the mayors and schepens of this city, regardless that it was not only done without his father's knowledge but also against his express prohibition to marry outside the country; therefore, the director-general and council request an authentic copy of this resolution, of which they are ignorant, and written reasons why such a resolution was not made known to the director-general and council, and their approval thereof not sought, according to the instructions granted to the inferior court of justice of this city. Done in New Amsterdam, 27 February 1654, New Netherland; was signed: P. Stuyvesant.

Translation Superscripts

[99]: See Volume 5: 221, for this resolution and The Records of New Amsterdam, 1653-1674, edited by Berthold Fernow, 7 vols., 1897 (reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1976 , 1:172 for the city's copy thereof.

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_V05_0224a.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.