Document: Deposition of Thomas Foster concerning actions at Flushing

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V11_58

Description

Deposition. Thomas Foster, Stephen Hudson and Isaac Bobye, as to the language of director Stuyvesant declaring the election at Hempstead illegal.

Document Date

1652-04-08

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-04-08

Document Type

Deposition

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Deposition

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Translation

Aprill the 8th 1652

The deposition of Thomas Foster, Stephen Hudson and Isacke Bobye taken before the maiestrates of flushing is that they commining into the meeting at Hempstead heard the Governor say that the towne had not made a legall choice and that all that they had done since captaine Tapping went away hee looked at it to bee as noething and wished to make a new choice and he woulde confirme them this is the full scope of what was written soe next as wee can remember.

John Underhill
Thomas Candle
Robart Terri

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/A1810/NYSA_A1810-78_V11_58.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translated in: Correspondence, 1647-1653, trans. and ed. Charles T. Gehring ("New Netherland Documents Series") (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000).

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.