Document: Petition of Joost Adriensen etc. for leave to build a saw and gristmill at Turtle falls on the South river

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Petition. Joost Adriensen etc., for leave to build a saw and gristmill at Turtle falls on the South river.

Document Date
1658-04-30
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1658-04-30
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[To the noble, honorable director general of New Netherland, etc.[i]

Show with due reverence Joost Adriaensen and companions, that they are willing] to erect a saw [ and gristmill below the turtle’s ] falls, [ for which the place ] and some land belonging to it was granted to them by the [ provisional ] commies of the honorable West India Company subject to your honor’s approval. Therefore, the petitioners respectfully request that your honors please approve this and issue a patent for it. Which doing, etc,

(was signed) Joost Adriaensen in Comp

(dated in the margin) Nieuwer Amstel the 30th of April 1658.

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the  (link is external)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 (link is external)Copyright and Use Statement Source: New York State Archives. New Netherland. Council. Dutch colonial council minutes, 1638-1665. Series A1809. Volume 8.

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[i]: Recovered text from translation in NYCD 12:210.
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From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. (link is external)  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: (link is external)http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0872a.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.

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(link is external)New Netherland Institute website.

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