Document: Order granting the Jews of New Amsterdam a burying place outside the city

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0285

Description

Order. Granting the Jews of New Amsterdam a burying place outside the city.

Document Date

1656-02-22

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-02-22

Document Type

Order

Minutes

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Order

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Translation

At the session, present: the honorable lord director general and the honorable lords councilors Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, and Cornelis van Tienhoven, fiscal.

Having received and read the petition of Abraham de Lugena, Salvador d’Andrada, and Jacob Cohen, Jews, on behalf of the other Jews, requesting that they be permitted to purchase a burial place or that a place might be indicated, granted, and allowed them.

After due deliberation, the following was resolved thereon:

The honorable lords Nicasius de Sille and Cornelis van Tienhoven have been authorized to indicate to the petitioners a piece of land for a burial ground, and to make a report thereof at the session. Ady ut supra, 22 February 1656.[1]

Translation Superscripts

[1]: See Oppenheim, Early History of the Jews, 75, for another translation of the petition (6:68) with commentary.

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_0285.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 6, Council Minutes, 1655-1656 (Syracuse: 1995).

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.