Document: Reasons why Daniel Witthet is detained a prisoner at New Amsterdam

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0001

Description

Reasons why Daniel Witthet (Whitehead) is detained a prisoner at New Amsterdam.

Document Date

1652-01-01

Document Date (Date Type)

1652-01-01

Document Type

Reasons

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Reasons

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Translation

[ First several lines are lost ] [1] Daniel Wittet[2] rightfully [ ] coming to the court of justice [ ] reason he has been held here so long [ ]

The honorable director and council answer [ ] that he, Daniel Wittet [ ] obedient to the resolution and order of the director and council, about which you were informed by a letter[3] dated [ ] in the month of December 1651 [ ] director and council hereby as previously [ ] that if he and his partners [ ] proper obedience to the same, that they would consider his release. In case of further disobedience they would be required to do it again [ ] .

P. Stuyvesant
H. van Dyck
La Montagne
Brian Newton

Translation Superscripts

[1]: As a result of the 1911 Capitol fire in Albany, New York, volume five suffered damage along the tops and along the right side of the first 50 pages.
[2]: Daniel Whitehead was among the early group of settlers from Connecticut which moved to Heemstead on Long Island in 1644.
[3]: This letter has been lost. The council minute concerning Whitehead has also been lost together with the council minute book from 2 August 1649 to January 1652.

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_V05_0001.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.