Document: Order permitting the burgomasters and schepens to construct a pier and collect wharfage

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1036

Description

Order. Permitting the burgomasters, etc., to construct the desired pier, and to collect wharfage.

Document Date

1658-11-11

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-11-11

Document Type

Order

Minutes

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Order

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Translation

Having received and read the above request, after due deliberation the following resolution is granted,

[several lines lost] allowed to be [ unloaded ] or loaded [ ] the other goods and merchandise [ ] signed, of which the skipper shall pay one-third, the owner or receiver two-thirds.

Done at Fort Amsterdam in N: Netherland, the 14th of November 1658.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman

J. de Deckere

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source: New York State Archives. New Netherland. Council. Dutch colonial council minutes, 1638-1665. Series A1809. Volume 8.

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_1036.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.