Document: Resolution ordering Anna Smith to appear before the Nine men, the director-general and consistory

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Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0019a

Description

Resolution. Ordering Anna Smith, an anabaptist, to appear before the Nine men, the director-general and consistory, to answer a complaint of rev. Mr. Megapolensis.

Document Date

1652-02-12

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-02-12

Document Type

Resolution

Minutes

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Resolution

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Translation

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Domine Johannes Megapolensis requests by petition that Anna Smits, Anabaptist, should be restrained from using slanderous and blasphemous expressions against God's word and his servants. The director and council order that the aforesaid Anna Smits shall appear on the following Wednesday at the school of David Provoost, where the alderman are accustomed to meet, and that the director and council, together with the petitioner and church council, shall appear there in order to hear what the aforesaid Anna Smits has to say against the teaching of the petitioner.

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_0019a.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.