Document: Petition of Ariaentje Cornelissen that she may be released from a debt due the company by her late husband

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Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V10_pt3_0037

Description

Petition. Ariaentje Cornelissen, widow of Cornelis Claessen Swits, and now married to Albert Leenderts, praying that as her farm had been cut up into lots and distributed among the settlers in Harlem, she may be released from a debt due the company by her late husband, who had been murdered by the Indians in 1655; granted.

Document Date

1664-02-07

Document Date (Date Type)

1664-02-07

Document Type

Petition

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Petition

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Translation

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: None

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.