Document: Order condemning two servants to imprisonment for plucking the goose and for threatening the director-general

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0220a

Description

Order. Condemning two others to imprisonment for the same offense and for threatening the director-general.

Document Date

1654-02-25

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-02-25

Document Type

Order

Minutes

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Order

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Translation

At a session of the director-general and council it has been decided that Jan Jansz van Oosterhout and Jan Jacobsz van Gietere, both farm workers who pulled or rode the goose, be put in jail because they threatened the General in their exuberance. Dated as above; was signed: P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, C. van Werckhoven, La Montangne and C. van Thienhoven.

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source: New York State Archives. New Netherland. Council. Dutch colonial council minutes, 1638-1665. Series A1809. Volume 5.

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_0220a.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.