Document: Petition of some of the crew of the ship Prince Maurice that freight belonging to them may be free from an attachment

Holding Institution
Document ID
NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0550
Description

Petition. Some of the crew of the ship Prince Maurice, that freight belonging to them may be free from an attachment, with order to the fiscal to investigate.

Document Date
1657-05-01
Document Date (Date Type)
1657-05-01
Document Type
Document Type Unlinked
Petition
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Translation
Translation

[To the highly esteemed, honorable Petrus Stuyvesant, director general and the honorable gentlemen of the council of New Netherland.[i]

Show] with due reverence Dirck Cornelisz Haen, stierman, Jan Barentsz, first mate, and Peter Cornelisz Mol, carpenter, lately of the stranded ship Prins Mauris that they, the petitioners, had taken with them, according to old customs, for their private use a little boatswain’s goods,[ii] to improve their poor compensations, namely a hogshead with cans, belonging to the navigator, a hogshead with pots, belonging to the first mate and 4 half hogsheads with French wine, belonging to the navigator and carpenter in company. The aforesaid goods along with others have been attached on account of some difference that occurred between the honorable lord Jacob Alrichs and their skipper Dirck Cornelisz Honingh; and whereas the said difference does not at all concern them, they, the petitioners, respectfully request that your honors will please to free the aforesaid goods from the attachment and that the same may be delivered to them in consideration of what is stated above, doing which, they remain,

(Below stood:) Your honors’ faithful servants, Dirck Cornelisz Haen, Jan Barentse, Pieter Cornelisz Mol.

[The noble, honorable director general, Petrus Stuyvesant decided as follows on the foregoing petition:

This is to be placed into the hands of the honorable fiscal de Sille, who is hereby authorized and directed to deliver, upon sight of this, to the petitioners the aforesaid two hogsheads with pots and] cans from the warehouse, and to inform himself as protector of the law in regard to the wine whether the matter is correctly stated; the more, as it is reported that the skipper has declared in the court of this city that the seized wine did not belong to him, but to the city of Amsterdam, given to him as ship’s provisions. If it is, as the skipper says, then the same must be sent to Mr. Alrichs, if it is found otherwise, as the petitioners claim, that it is boatswain’s goods, it is to be delivered to them. Dated as above.

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Translation Superscripts
[i]: Recovered text from translation in NYCD 12:184.
[ii]: Voeringh: goods a sailor was allowed to carry duty free for trading purposes.
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_0550.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.

Ship Mentioned (Unlinked)
Prince Maurice
To Party 1
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The Crew of the ship Prince Maurice
From Party 1
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Dirck Cornelisz Haen, stierman
From Party 2
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Jan Barentsz, first mate
Related Ancestors (Unlinked)
Multiple Parties
Peter Cornelisz Mol, carpenter
A1809 Additional Party
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