Document: Order on the petition of Paul Heymans for the release of his wife from prison

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0071b

Description

Order. The petition of Paul Heymans, praying for the release of his wife from prison; she is to he confined to her husband's house.

Document Date

1655-08-11

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-08-11

Document Type

Order

Petition

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Order | Petition

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Translation

On Wednesday, 11 August.

At the session, present: the honorable lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant, the honorable lords councilors N. de Sille, La Montagne, and the lord fiscal Corn, van Tienhoven, having read the petition of Poul Hey- mans requesting that his wife be released from jail, and that they be allowed to earn a living here in this country next to other honest people, with the promise to leave the tapping trade and never again to take it up.

After due deliberation, it was decided to recommend the following: For the better management of the petitioner’s debts, old and new, he is permitted and allowed upon presentation of this that his wife, presently in confinement for a period of time, shall be released from confinement and confined in the petitioner’s house without giving their neighbors the least occasion to complain, much less that she or he be allowed to lodge or shelter anyone, no matter under what pretext it may be, upon pain of further punishment. Ady ut supra.

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_0071b.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.