Document: Order for the removal of George Baxter from prison to the detention room in the city hall, New Amsterdam

The end of November.

The honorable director general and the lords councilors of New Netherland having considered the petition of several distinguished Englishmen, and request of Joris Bacxter, at present a prisoner, and having considered the orders of the lords superiors and the long imprisonment of the aforesaid Baxter, it has been resolved at the session by unanimous vote and deemed advisable for important reasons that the aforesaid George Baxter be brought from the present cold prison to the cell in the city hall in order to stay there and await the lord directors’ orders from Holland, provided that he post bond against escape.[1] Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra, (was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne.

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