Document: Petition of Nicolas Bayardt for an increase of salary

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0632b

Description

Petition. Nicolas Bayardt for an increase of salary; granted.

Document Date

1658-01-07

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-01-07

Document Type

Petition

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Petition

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Translation

To the honorable lords director general and the lords high councilors of N: Netherland

Nicolaes Baijard shows with due respect how he, petitioner, has been writing and copying in English now for a considerable time at the office of the honorable Company with its honorable secretary Cornelis van Ruijven without receiving any wages or salary for it.

[several lines lost] Bayardt [ ]

The 7th of January 1658 [ ]

The above petition having been [ received, it ] is resolved as follows: The petitioner shall be given six guilders per month, beginning after the first of January, provided that he comport himself vigilantly and diligently, as is appropriate. Done in Amsterdam in N: Netherland, anno 1658 (was signed) Petrus Stuyvesant

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/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0632b.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.