Document: Order to the magistrates of Gravesend to sell all the property there belonging to George Baxter

Proposals made at the session before the flight of the fugitive George Baxter, both by the inhabitants of Gravesande as well as by others that he is ƒ200 in arrears with the poor fund of the aforesaid village, all of which as of today has remained unpaid. Therefore, the director general and councilors of New Netherland, upon the request of the aforesaid magistrates of Gravesande concerning this matter, hereby authorize the aforesaid magistrates of Gravesande to inventory properly or have inventoried the plantation of the aforesaid George Baxter at Gravesande, and that which depends thereon, and all of his other effects that he has there; and after the inventory is complete, to sell all of the same publicly to the highest bidder, and then to deliver to the director general and councilors, aforesaid, a net list of the monies yielded thereof, together with the debts and claims which are known to them, in order to await their further orders thereon. Thus done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 27th of December 1656.

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