Document: Letter from Edward Heart to director and council

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0671
Description

Letter. Edward Heart to director and council, for release from imprisonment and pardon.

Document Date
1658-01-23
Document Date (Date Type)
1658-01-23
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Translation
Translation

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Right Honnorable Go[ vernor and Counsell. ] Ffor as much as I have written [ a writeing ] whereat you take offence my hum[ ble desire ] is that your Honnors woulde bee fa[ vorable ] and gracious unto mee, for it was not written

in disobedience unto any of your lawes, therefore my humble request is for your mercy, not

your Judgement, and that you woulde bee pleased to consider my poore estate and Condition and release mee from my bonds and Imprisonment, and I shall endeavor hereafter to walke inoffensively unto your Lordeshipps and shall ever remaine your humble servant to Command.

Edward Hart

Jannuary 23rd 1658.[i]

Translation Superscripts
[i]: English document; recovered text from transcription in NYCD 14:408–409.
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/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0671.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

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.

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