Document: Resolution of the Amsterdam chamber arranging passage for a soldier's wife

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V11_67b

Description

Resolution. Amsterdam chamber to grant Jacob Baselier 500 morgens of land on Long island, on condition that he convey 20 persons thither in the course of a year.;Resolution. Same to assist Machteltje Martens, wife of Andries Barentsen, a soldier, to join her husband in New Netherland.;Resolution. Same permitting Gerard Smith and Nicolas and Joost van Beeck to select, by themselves or agents, as much land in New Netherland as they can cultivate (supra, p. 60).

Document Date

1652-04-09

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-04-09

Document Type

Resolution

Document Type Unlinked

Resolution

Full Resolution Image

Download, 100MB+ (Right-Click)

Translation

Tuesday, the 9th of April 1652

Machteltjen Martens, wife of Andries Barentsz who departed last year for New Netherland as a soldier, having received a communication from him to convey herself also over there, petitions, because of lack of funds to be able to complete her voyage over there at her own expense, that she may receive four months salary from the accompanying wage ticket (of which two months are already due). After due deliberation it was resolved to pay the first two months here and have the skipper stand security for the other two, provided that they be paid in New Netherland and entered on her husband's account.

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_67b.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.