Document: Order permitting the burgomasters and schepens to construct a pier and collect wharfage

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_1036

Description

Order. Permitting the burgomasters, etc., to construct the desired pier, and to collect wharfage.

Document Date

1658-11-11

Document Date (Date Type)

1658-11-11

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

Having received and read the above request, after due deliberation the following resolution is granted,

[several lines lost] allowed to be [ unloaded ] or loaded [ ] the other goods and merchandise [ ] signed, of which the skipper shall pay one-third, the owner or receiver two-thirds.

Done at Fort Amsterdam in N: Netherland, the 14th of November 1658.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman

J. de Deckere

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_1036.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.