Document: Order releasing Nicholas Varlet from half the cost of the company's ship

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0537

Description

Order. Releasing him from half the cost.

Document Date

1657-04-24

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-04-24

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

The director general and councilors being sufficiently aware of the reasons presented in his petition, relieve the petitioner of half of the damages of the foundered schouw; however, the petitioner shall employ all possible effort [several lines lost] of which [ ] councilors accept to pay and satisfy half to the petitioner or the seller. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 24th of April 1657.

Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman

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_V08_0537.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.