Document: Contents of a leather bag which John Young left behind him when he escaped

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New York State Archives

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1017

Description

Specification of the contents of a leather bag which John Young left behind him when he made his escape from arrest.

Document Date

1654-03-31

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-03-31

Document Type

Contents

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Translation

[several lines lost] veiw & [

their presence [ uppon the 30th: [

of the civill detainement [

one horne combe, two bands, one fowel, one cleine[ one paper of pinnes, two stilles two strick fire, one black one blew ribon shoestringes, two gloves of two coullers, about three spans of rold tobacco, in an Indian small notas seventy six gilders fifteene styvers, in a glove eleven gilders seven styvers & a halfe in a wollen cloth six gilders six stijvers eight pence in No: 3: a: linnen bagge sixteene pound fourteene shillings ten pence, in an other notas no: 2: two hundred eighty foure gilders therteene stijvers soo that in all is found in the some of five hundred foure schore gilders loose and strong wampam[i]

Whereof for charges of the aforesaid young which is paid unto Laurens Cornelis for expences one hundred thirty nijne gilders for his charges of imprisonment fifteene daijes & for Nicolas his mate & John Scot

3 daijes make together one and twenty dayes at eighteene stijvers a day mounts to eighteene gilders therteene stijvers unto the marshall seaven gild: ten sijvers

unto Hendrick the sergant in wijne and beere ten gilders [several lines lost]

] underwrighten:) La Montagne Leend]erson vande Grift, Isaacq Alder[ton

] Collection is found to agree with the prince[ pal ] the date above whrighten Was subscrijbed

Dirck van Schelluijne nottaris pub[lique

Translation Superscripts

[i]: English document.

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_1017.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.