Document: Resolution ordering the fiscal to forbid certain Englishmen settling at Vreedlandt (Westchester county)

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0421

Description

Resolution. Ordering the fiscal to forbid certain Englishmen settling at Vreedlandt (Westchester county).

Document Date

1654-11-05

Document Date (Date Type)

1654-11-05

Document Type

Resolution

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Resolution

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Translation

there to be hanged until dead. The prisoner replies, "I am at the mercy of you gentlemen who may do as you please. I prefer to be hanged than be further injured, because I have to earn my living with my hands."[221] Furthermore, he confesses to have committed that which the fiscal has accused him with; however, he says that the Swedish factor, Hendrick van Elswyck, attacked him first and kicked him so that he fell down next to the fire.

The director-general and council grant the prisoner 24 hours to bring in anything which might be used to spare him. Done at New Amsterdam, 5 November 1654; present: the honorable Director General Petrus Stuyvesant, Mr. Nicasius de Sille, Mr. Montangne, Cor. van Thienhooven.

At the session it has been resolved: whereas some English begin to settle and establish villages

Translation Superscripts

[221]: Possible reference to the prisoner's hands being misused during torture.

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_0421.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.