Document: Resolution concerning an accidental death

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_67g

Description

Resolution. Same directing that Adrian Jansen, pilot of the ship The Court of Cleeff, be not molested for having accidentally shot his captain in 1649.;Duplicate of resolution on p. 65.;Resolution. Same to grant Hog island (now Manning's island) to Francis Fyn, if vacant, and if no special objection intervene.

Document Date

1652-04-25

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-04-25

Document Type

Resolution

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Resolution

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Translation

[1]Upon the proposal that Adriaen Jansz, departing again for New Netherland as pilot with the ship 't Hoff van Cleeff, having been in New Netherland in the year 1649 and at that time being ordered on board a galiot by the fiscal, accidently shot the skipper when his firearm discharged, whereby the same person [ ] [ ] shall be recorded [ ] [ ] left unmolested.

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Translation Superscripts

[1]: According to O'Callaghan, Calendar, p. 277, the resolution dated April 25 orders that Adriaen Jansz not be molested for having shot his captain in 1649.

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/A1810/NYSA_A1810-78_V11_67g.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translated in: Correspondence, 1647-1653, trans. and ed. Charles T. Gehring ("New Netherland Documents Series") (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

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.