Document: Letter from the burgomasters and schepens to director and council

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New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0250a
Description

Letter. Burgomasters and schepens to director and council, referring for their decision the papers in the suit of Peter Cock vs. Anna van Vorst, on a promise of marriage, with answer (April 30).

Document Date
1654-02-19
Document Date (Date Type)
1654-02-19
Document Type
Letter
Minutes
Document Type Unlinked
Letter
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Translation
Translation

The honorable and highly esteemed Director-General and High Council of New Netherland.

Honorable gentlemen: Whereas a matrimonial suit has been instituted before us, mayors and schepens of the city of New Amsterdam, between Pieter Cock, plaintiff, and Anna van Vorst, defendant; therefore, we have thought it proper to send the same papers, under cover, to your honors, in order to obtain your honors' decision thereon. Done at the session of the mayors and schepens of the aforesaid city of New Amsterdam, 19 February 1654, in New Netherland; be­ low was written: By order of the aforesaid mayors and schepens; and was signed Jacob Kip, secretary.[1]

The director-general and high council, after seeing and reading the above, make the following recommendation: Whereas the suit is completed, the sentence must follow. If either of the parties should find themselves injured by the decision of the mayors and schepens, they can address an appeal to the high council. 30 April 1654, New Netherland.

Translation Superscripts
[1]: See The Records of New Amsterdam, 1653-1674, edited by Berthold Fernow, 7 vols., 1897 (reprinted Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1976, 1:167 for the city's record of this decision.
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_0250a.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.

To Party 1
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Director and council
From Party 1
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Burgomasters and Schepens
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A1809 Additional Party
Dutch Colonial Council
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Council Dutch Colonial Council Minutes (Series A1809 _ 1638-1665)
Box
2
Volume
5
Item
250a
Link
http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/54842