Document: Order to seize and seal all the books and papers belonging to Cornelis van Tienhoven, late fiscal

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0267

Description

Order to seize and seal all the books and papers belonging to Cornelis van Tienhoven, late fiscal, he having absconded.

Document Date

1656-11-07

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-11-07

Document Type

Order

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Order

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Translation

[several lines lost] has been left wanting [ ] to do accounts, and now it is said that he has secretly departed; that the aforesaid Tienhoven has been absent since Thursday evening, last past, the 2nd of this month; the housewife of the same has also unnecessarily reported the same to several people and even to the director general that she has not seen her husband since that time and does not know his whereabouts either. It has been deemed necessary that the books and papers found in his office, concerning the Company in any way, be gathered by the secretary Cornelis van Ruyven and the commissary Carel van Brugge, closed in a chest, and have the same brought under seal to the council room. Thus done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 7th of November 1656.

P. Stuyvesant

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_0267.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.