Document: Resolution to rent the Ferry at New Amsterdam to the highest bidder

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0771c

Description

Resolution to rent the Ferry at New Amsterdam to the highest bidder.

Document Date

1658-03-19

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-03-19

Document Type

Resolution

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Resolution

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Translation

Received the petition of Egbert van Borssum veerman, requesting that he be allowed to continue as ferryman for the sum of ƒ300 per year, and that it would not be farmed out publicly.

It is resolved, according to the custom of our fatherland, the ferry must be publicly farmed out to the highest bidder, and when this will be done the petitioner can, together with others, bid as much as agrees with his good judgment. Dated as above.

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_0771c.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.