Document: Order on a petition of Abraham de Lucena and others, praying for a grant of land for a Jewish burying ground in New Amsterdam

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0068b

Description

Order. On a petition of Abraham de Lucena and others, praying for a grant of land for a Jewish burying ground in New Amsterdam; no need of it yet.

Document Date

1655-07-27

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-07-27

Document Type

Order

Petition

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order | Petition

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Translation

Abraham de Lucena, Salvador Dandrada, and Jacob Cohen, Jews, on behalf of the others, petition the honorable lord director general, on this date, to be allowed to purchase a burial place for their people. There having been deliberation thereof at the session, it was decided to furnish in response that since they did not wish to bury their dead in the common burial place (for which there has been no need as of yet) they would be allowed, as the need and the circumstances thereof require, to bury somewhere else on open land belonging to the Company. Ady ut supra.[1]

Translation Superscripts

[1]: See Oppenheim, 75, for other translation; for decision on location of burial ground, see 6:285.

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_0068b.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.