Document: Order for the sale of a house and ship belonging to Thomas Baxter

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0252a

Description

Order. For the sale of a house and sloop belonging to Thomas Baxter.

Document Date

1654-05-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-05-13

Document Type

Order

Minutes

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Order

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Translation

1654, 13 May New Amsterdam.

The director-general and high council have taken notice of Thomas Bacxter's deteriorated yacht and unfinished house which he abandoned on the beach of this city near the Capsken[1] when he fled during the night. The director-general and council give their consent that this yacht and house shall be sold to the highest bidder by the fiscal, ex officio publicq. The fiscal is ordered by the director-general and council to promote the sale through the auction master on the 11th of this month, who shall keep an account of it. Done at the session, 6 May 1654, New Amsterdam, New Netherland.

Translation Superscripts

[1]: i.e., "Little Cape," the southernmost point of Manhattan Island in the 17th century; now approximately the corner of Whitehall and Front Street.

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_0252a.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.