Document: Petition of Bartel Maneken, a soldier, for his discharge

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0298b

Description

Petition. Bartel Maneken, a soldier, for his discharge; granted.

Document Date

1656-02-22

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-02-22

Document Type

Petition

Minutes

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Petition

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Translation

To the honorable lord director general and lords councilors of New Netherland.

Bartel Maneken, soldier in the service of the honorable West India Company and your honors’ [ service ], shows with all due respect, how he has been informed by letter (received with the ship de Gelderse Blom) that his friends in the fatherland had obtained from the honorable lords directors that he, petitioner, is to be discharged from the service (about which your honors shall be notified without a doubt); therefore, he respectfully requests that your honors be pleased to discharge him from the service, and for that purpose to grant a passport in common form. Which doing etc. (Below was written:) Your honors’ obedient servant.

After deliberation it was decided: Fiat ut petitur, provided that he depart with the ship de Waagh. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. 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_0298b.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.