Document: Order for payment of the account of Mathys Capito

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0319b

Description

Order. For payment of the same.

Document Date

1656-12-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-12-27

Document Type

Order

Minutes

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Order

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Translation

The above account having been received and read in session by the honorable lord director general and councilors of New Netherland, it was resolved, after due deliberation, that Matthijs Capito shall earn daily in wages for bookkeeping 50 stivers for reasons expressed in more detail in the resolution drafted on this date concerning this matter.[i]Therefore, the commissary is ordered to credit him for so much on his account, in addition to the ƒ37:10 which he claims for board and lodging of Joan Gaillardo to be credited on his account.

Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated 27 December

anno 1656.

Rights: This translation is provided for education and research purposes, courtesy of the New York State Library Manuscripts and Special Collections, Mutual Cultural Heritage Project. Rights may be reserved. Responsibility for securing permissions to distribute, publish, reproduce or other use rest with the user. For additional information see our Copyright and Use Statement Source: New York State Archives. New Netherland. Council. Dutch colonial council minutes, 1638-1665. Series A1809. Volume 8.

Translation Superscripts

[i]: See 8:322 for the order increasing Capito’s pay.

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_0319b.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.