Document: Minute of receipt of intelligence by Isaac Allerton's ship

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0347b

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Minute. Receipt of intelligence by Isaac Allerton's ketch, that a Swedish ship called the Mercury had arrived at the South river, (Delaware), and order thereupon not to allow the Swedes to land, but to request the commander to proceed with his vessel to the Manhattans.

Document Date

1656-03-29

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-03-29

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Minutes

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Minute

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Translation

29 March

During the night between 28 and 29 March we received a letter via Mr. Allerton’s ketch dated 24 March from our commander on the South River, wherein we learned of the arrival of a Swedish ship named the Mercurius in the aforesaid river, having altogether 130 souls aboard.

After reading the same it was resolved and decided to disallow the landing of the Swedes there, and to instruct them to return to Sweden with the aforesaid ship, or, if they prefer, to come to this place with the aforesaid ship; that they shall be granted a safe conduct in order to depart unmolested after they have provided themselves with necessary foodstuffs and stores. Thus done at Fort Amsterdam during the night between 28 and 29 March 1656. Present the honorable lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant, lord Nicasius de Sille, the lord La Montagne, and the lord fiscal Tienhoven.

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_V06_0347b.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.