Document: Petition of Adriaen van der Donck

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V11_79

Description

Petition. Adriaen van der Donck, for permission to return to New Netherland, and pledging himself not to meddle in public affairs.

Document Date

1653-05-26

Document Date (Date Type)

1653-05-26

Document Type

Petition

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Petition

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Translation

[1] [ May 26th, 1653 ]

The undersigned, [ Adriaen ] van der Donck, humbly requests consent and passport of the [ Board ] to go to New Netherland, offering to resign the commission previously given him as President of the community, or otherwise as its deputy, and promising upon arrival in New Netherland and taking up residence there, to accept no office whatever it may be, but rather to live in private peacefully and quietly as a common inhabitant, submitting to the orders and commands of the Company or those enacted by its director. Which doing, etc.

[ ENDORSED: ] Petition for Adriaen van der Danek submitted the 26th of May 1653.

Adriaen van der Danek

Translation Superscripts

[1]: Missing material recovered from ibid., 204.

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/A1810/NYSA_A1810-78_V11_79.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translated in: Correspondence, 1647-1653, trans. and ed. Charles T. Gehring ("New Netherland Documents Series") (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

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.