Document: Summons for Middelburgh magistrates to appear before Council

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V12_51

Description

Summons. Magistrates of the above town to appear at Port Amsterdam and answer said complaint. [1657]

Document Date

1657-01-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-01-15

Document Type

Summons

Document Type Unlinked

Summons

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Translation

Ao. 1657, 15 January. Answer to the foregoing writing.

Whereas Wee ware informed that the house off the Minister (being bild for a publicq use and successively for the Ministerij) by som off the inhabitance off the Towne of Middleborch was disposed off, and given, unto Meester More, for his private use, it beeingh soo, as wee doe not hope, or thinke, then this are to require the Magistraats off the said Towne, to make their appijrance before us, for to give information and reasons, uppon wath Grounds, and Wherefore it was done alsoo; In the mayntyme the Magistraats are required and ordered to proceed no farther against the bearer John Layton. Soe after mee Love, I rest,

Your friend and Gouvernor

Fort Amsterdam, in N. Nederlant.

[ ADDRESSED: ] Middelborch

[ ENDORSED: ] From Newtowne to Go. Stuyvesant January 22, 1657.

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_V12_51.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.