Document: Order suspending the court at Flushing until further orders

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0660a

Description

Order. Suspending the court at Flushing until further orders.

Document Date

1658-01-22

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-01-22

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

[22nd January

The foregoing letter from the oldest magistrate of the village of Vlissingen, William Lawrence, having been opened and read in council, it is resolved, to answer by the bearer] thereof, Willam [ Noble, ] that they should suspend their meetings in the capacity of magistrates until the director general and councilors themselves have been in their village, or until they have sent their delegates to set things right there; if meanwhile something extraordinary occurred, they should refer it to the director general and councilors. Dated as above.[i]

Translation Superscripts

[i]: Recovered text from translation in NYCD 14:408.

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_0660a.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.