Document: Order to the Dutch towns to send delegates to New Orange to confer with the governor

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1881-78_V23_0229
Description

Order to the Dutch towns to send delegates to New Orange to confer with the governor

Document Date
1674-03-22
Document Date (Date Type)
1674-03-22
Document Type
Order
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Translation
Translation

Schout Jacob Strycker.

You are hereby required and ordered to notify the Dutch Towns situate In your district, to commission each of them a Militia officer and Magistrate from their respective Towns, with whom you will repair, on Monday next at ten o'clock in the forenoon, to the City Hall of this city, when I intend to have some conference with you on the present state of the country.Whereupon relying, I remain

A similar order is also transmitted to the Schouts of the Towns of Bergen and Haerlem.

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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
229
Link
https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/51944