Document: Petition of surgeon Varrevanger to be allowed expenses incurred in the repair of the company's house occupied by him

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0279

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Petition. Surgeon Varrevanger to be allowed expenses incurred in the repair of the company's house occupied by him; referred for examination to a committee.

Document Date

1656-02-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-02-15

Document Type

Petition

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Petition

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Translation

At the session at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland; present: the honorable director general Petrus Stuyvesant, the lord Nicasius de Sille, the lord La Montagne, and the lord fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven.

Mr. Jacob Varriger, surgeon in the service of the honorable West India Company, remonstrating that he has made various necessary repairs to the house where he lives, and whereas it is a Company house, and they were made on behalf of the Company, he requested that he be credited on his account for the expenses incurred according to the submitted reckoning.

After deliberation it was decided:

To place this in the hands of the honorable Nicasius de Sille and Cornelis van Tienhoven to inspect and appraise the repairs made. Ady ut supra.

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_V06_0279.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.