Document: Ordinance forbidding the lodging of Indians at night between the fort and the Fresh water in New Amsterdam

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0012a

Description

Ordinance. Forbidding the lodging of Indians, at night, between the fort and the Fresh water, New Amsterdam.

Document Date

1656-05-29

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-05-29

Document Type

Ordinance

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Ordinance

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Translation

[ The director general and councilors, with the advice of the burgomasters and field officers of the burgher corps, hereby notify and warn everyone ] that from now [ henceforward no person ] shall harbor any wilden [ during the night between this place and ] the Fresh Water, under the penalty of 25 guilders fine for everyone who has lodged a single wilt overnight without a certificate signed by the director general or the secretary. Thus done at the session held in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland on the 29th of May 1656.[i]

Translation Superscripts

[i]: Recovered text from translation in LO, 228.

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_0012a.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.