Document: Protest of Hendrick van Elswyck against the director and council for having seized the Swedish ship Golden Shark

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0406

Description

Protest. Hendrick van Elswyck, against the director and council for having seized the Swedish ship Golden Shark.

Document Date

1654-10-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-10-27

Document Type

Protest

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Protest

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Translation

[ to conceal their plunder, ] to the great prejudice of the inhabitants of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck. Done at the session of the honorable director-general and high council held in New Amsterdam, 27 October 1654; and was signed: P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montangne, Cor. van Thienhooven.

Highly esteemed gentlemen.Your noble honors are aware that, when on the 12/22 of last September[221] I arrived in this river of New Netherland with the ship, den Gulden Hay,[222] entrusted to me

Translation Superscripts

[221]: The day is double dated because Sweden was still on the Julian calendar at this time and therefore ten days ahead of the Gregorian calendar.
[222]: The Swedish name for the ship was Gyllene Haj, "The Golden Shark."

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_0406.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.