Document: Order for administering the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the towns in Achter Col (New Jersey)

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1881-78_V23_0055a
Description

Order for administering the oath of allegiance to the inhabitants of the towns in Achter Col (New Jersey)

Document Date
1673-09-06
Document Date (Date Type)
1673-09-06
Document Type
Order
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Translation
Translation

At a Meeting of the Commanders and Honorable Council of War, holden in Fort Willem Hendrik on the 6th September, Anno 1673.

Captain Knyf and Captain Snell are this day commissioned and authorized by the Honorable Council of War, to repair with the clerk Abram Varlet to Elizabets Towne, Woodbridge, Shrousbury, Piscattaway New Worke and Middeltowne, situate at Achter Coll, and to administer the oath of allegiance to all the inhabitants of those towns in the form as hereinbefore recorded, to which end orders and instruction in due form are also given them.

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References
Translation: O'Callaghan, E.B., trans./ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, vol. 2 (Albany: Weed, Parsons: 1858), pp. 569-730 (vol. 23, pp. 1-270 only).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Council Dutch colonial administrative records (Series A1881 _ 1673-1674)
Box
17
Volume
23
Item
55a
Link
https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/51756