Document: Resolution of the Amsterdam Chamber dispatching a private ship to New Netherland

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NYSA_A1810-78_V11_72

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Resolution. Amsterdam chamber of the W. I. Company, authorizing Gillis Verbrugge & Co. to despatch a vessel to New Netherland on certain favorable conditions.

Document Date

1652-11-18

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-11-18

Document Type

Resolution

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Resolution

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Translation

[ Extract from the Register of Resolutions passed by the Directors of the West India Company, Chamber at Amsterdam ]

Monday, 18 November

Upon the request of Gilles Verbrugge and company submitted at this session, it was resolved to grant the same and consent that they may freight and dispatch an express yacht or galiot to New Netherland at their own expense, provided that they be allowed to load their merchandise without any recognition fee to the amount of four or five thousand guilders on the way out and on the return to the amount of eight or ten thousand guilders; and concerning the goods loaded in the aforesaid ship above the aforesaid amounts, the customary recognition fees shall be paid, whether belonging to them or to others; and the company shall be free to ship such goods, as it sees fit, without any freight charge.

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_72.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.