Document: Report of capt. Knyff and the other commissioners sent to administer the oath of allegiance

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New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1881-78_V23_0125c
Description

Report of capt. Knyff and the other commissioners sent to administer the oath of allegiance

Document Date
1673-10-19
Document Date (Date Type)
1673-10-19
Document Type
Report
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Translation
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October 19, 1673. Captain Willem Knyf and Lieutenant Anthony Malipart, having been on the first instant by commission qualified to administer the oath of allegiance to the remaining inhabitants of Long Island, situate east of Oysterbay, returning this day, Report:

That in obedience to said commission, they had repaired to all the said towns, and there called Town Meetings, and proposed to them the oath of allegiance to their High Mightinesses and his Serene Highness, which all of them refused with the exception of Oysterbay, where it has been taken, and Huntington, where the inhabitants requested to be excused from the oath on promising fidelity in writing to the government. Said Commissioners bringing with them the written answer of said Town, in words following:

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References
Translation: O'Callaghan, E.B., trans./ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, vol. 2 (Albany: Weed, Parsons: 1858), pp. 569-730 (vol. 23, pp. 1-270 only).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Council Dutch colonial administrative records (Series A1881 _ 1673-1674)
Box
17
Volume
23
Item
125c
Link
https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/51824