Document: Order to the fiscal to search a vessel in the harbor of New Amsterdam

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0961b

Description

Order. Fiscal to search a vessel in the harbor of New Amsterdam.

Document Date

1658-09-03

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-09-03

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

3 September, Tuesday.

Present at the meeting, the honorable lord director general, Petro Stuyvesant, the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille, Pieter Tonneman and Johan de Deckere.

For reasons moving the director general and councilors thereto, it is resolved that the lord director general on a certain convenient day when his honor thinks it best, will order and direct the fiscal to inspect the ship t’ Draatvadt (at present lying here on the North River) and in order to do such properly according to the requirements, the fiscal shall be provided with two schouwen and the honorable Company’s yacht, and all the Company’s Negroes.

Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above.

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_0961b.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.