Document: Ordinance|Director General and Council establishing a weekly market at New Amsterdam

The Director General and Council of N.N. to All etc. Greeting.

Know ye: WHEREAS now and then the people from the country bring various wares, such as meat, bacon, butter, cheese, turnips, roots, straw, and other products of the farm to this City for sale, arrived with which at the strand they must often remain there with their goods a long time to their great damage, because the community or at least the major part of it, living away from the strand, do not know, that anything has been brought for sale, which is not only an inconvenience for the burghers, but also a great loss for the industrious countrymen, who often thus lose more time, than they have bestowed upon the production of their wares,—Therefore the Director General and Council hereby order, that henceforth Saturday shall be held and kept as Market day in this City on the Strand near the house of Master Hans Kierstede; let everyone who has anything to sell or buy govern himself accordingly.

Thus done etc., September 12, 1656.