Document: Order to receive certain duties on tobacco in Wampum at 10 guilders for one beaver

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0580a
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Order. To receive certain duties on tobacco in Wampum, at 10 guilders for one beaver.

Document Date
1657-05-15
Document Date (Date Type)
1657-05-15
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Translation
Translation

[several lines lost] private account [ ] and whereas they had no beavers to pay the recognition fee, as one ought to, they offered to satisfy the same with sewant.

Having deliberated thereon, the provisional receiver is ordered to accept from the aforesaid sailors and other people of poor means, who have no beavers for the recognition fee on tobacco, well strung sewant, provided that 10 guilders in sewant is received for one beaver. Dated as above.

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.

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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_0580a.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.

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Wampum
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