Document: Minute of application for an increase of wages by Bartholameus van Schel and other masons to complete the stone wall around fort Amsterdam

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0776a

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Minute. Application for an increase of wages by Bartholameus van Schel and other masons sent from Holland to complete the stone wall around fort Amsterdam.

Document Date

1658-03-19

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-03-19

Document Type

Minutes

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Minute

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Translation

In court appeared Andries Vrijdagh, Bartholomeus van Schel, and Mesagh Martensen, masons sent by the lords directors by the ships Otter and St. Jan in order to complete the stone wall around the fort, etc. They complained about the meagerness of their salaries, that they had been contracted for only ƒ14 per month, and that everything here was so expensive that it was impossible for them to decently get by on that.

Having heard the story, they are advised to write down their request and then hand it over.[i] Dated as above.

Translation Superscripts

[i]: See 8:788 for this petition.

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_0776a.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.