Document: Ordinance for the immediate improvement of Haerlem

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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