Document: Protest of Hendrick van Elswyck against the director and council for having seized the Swedish ship Golden Shark

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0406

Description

Protest. Hendrick van Elswyck, against the director and council for having seized the Swedish ship Golden Shark.

Document Date

1654-10-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-10-27

Document Type

Protest

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Protest

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Translation

[ to conceal their plunder, ] to the great prejudice of the inhabitants of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck. Done at the session of the honorable director-general and high council held in New Amsterdam, 27 October 1654; and was signed: P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montangne, Cor. van Thienhooven.

Highly esteemed gentlemen.Your noble honors are aware that, when on the 12/22 of last September[221] I arrived in this river of New Netherland with the ship, den Gulden Hay,[222] entrusted to me

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the 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 Copyright and Use Statement Source: New York State Archives. New Netherland. Council. Dutch colonial council minutes, 1638-1665. Series A1809. Volume 5.

Translation Superscripts

[221]: The day is double dated because Sweden was still on the Julian calendar at this time and therefore ten days ahead of the Gregorian calendar.
[222]: The Swedish name for the ship was Gyllene Haj, "The Golden Shark."

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_V05_0406.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.