Document: Commission from Flushing

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Document ID

NYSA_A1810-78_V12_53b

Description

Commission from the town of Flushing to William Laurence, Robert Terry and Tobias Feake, to procure redress against the encroachments of the town of Hempstead. [1657]

Document Date

1657-01-23

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-01-23

Document Type

Commission

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Commission

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Translation

Forasmuch as it hath pleased our Honnorable Gouemor and Councell to direct their orders of excise bere wine and flesh vnto vs the inhabitants of Vlishing vpon receipt of the said orders the Towne assembled together haue deputed to agitate with your Honnors the parties here specifyed namely William Lawrence, Robert Terry, Tobias Feake with all respect to repaire vnto the Honnorable as aforesaid humbly intreateing their Honnors that they will vouchsafe to Continue vs in our present rightes and priviledges of our patient and Articles to which wee willingly submitt with due obedience according to the Tennor of the same: and that their Honnors will be pleased to Consider our vnavoydable straites wee are like to bee exposed vnto by the intrusion of the men of Hempstead on the East part of our boundes written by order from the Towne by mee

From Vlishing this23rd of Jannuary 1657.

Edward Heart

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_53b.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.