Document: Ordinance for the immediate improvement of Haerlem

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1044b
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Ordinance. For the immediate improvement of Haerlem.

Document Date
1658-11-27
Document Date (Date Type)
1658-11-27
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Ordinance
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All persons to whom it may concern are hereby notified and informed in advance that all those who have obtained lots or plantations in the newly begun village of Haerlem, shall take possession or cause possession to be taken thereof within six weeks after this date, and commence preparations to fence and plant them on pain of having the lots or plantations that are not occupied within the said time granted and given to other interested persons. Hereby everyone be warned. Done at Fort Amsterdam in N: Netherland, the 27th of November anno 1658.[i]

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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.

Translation Superscripts
[i]: See LO, 361 for another translation.
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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_1044b.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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