Document: Order to captain De Coninck to charter the ship Ballance

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0329a

Description

Order. Captain De Coninck to charter the ship Ballance.

Document Date

1656-03-15

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-03-15

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

Full Resolution Image

Download, 100MB+ (Right-Click)

Translation

15 March

Upon the petition submitted at the session by the valiant Captain Frederick de Coninck and the skipper Jacob Gorter, the director general [ ] of New Netherland authorize the aforesaid Captain Coninck and the skipper Jacob Gorter to form a charter party with the merchants or whoever wishes to transport goods in the ship de Waagh, for the maximum profit of the honorable lords directors of the chartered West India Company; which charter party the aforesaid director general and councilors hereby promise to be executed and accomplished punctually. Thus done in our session at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra. (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne. 15 March.

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_0329a.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.