Document: Appointment of Wessel Gerritsen and Pieter Lourissen to be pilots to the expedition against the Swedes

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0083b

Description

Appointment. Wessel Gerritsen and Pieter Lourissen to be pilots to the above expedition.

Document Date

1655-08-28

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-08-28

Document Type

Appointment

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Appointment

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Translation

It has been deemed necessary by the honorable director general and council of New Netherland to employ some persons, who are well versed in and have pertinent knowledge of the banks, depths and shoals in as well as about the South River, to employ them as pilots, for which have been considered fit Wessel Gerritsen and Pieter Lourissen, as having both sailed to and from there for a long time; which persons having been summoned before the council, they were made acquainted herewith and they hired themselves out to the honorable director general for the service of the company, and each agreed to 3 guilders per day.

Ady ut supra. 28 August 1655.

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_0083b.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.