Document: Resolution to appoint a commissary at Fort Orange

16 June, Wednesday

The high council of New Netherland, having accepted the credentials, granted by the magistrates of Fort Orange and Beverwijck to Jan Ver- beecq, Sander Leendertsen and Frans Barentsen, submitted at the session on 15 June of this year, looked further at their instructions dated 10 June, last past, and the high council understood that for the better administration of justice, service to the country and the good inhabitants, it is necessary, because the commissary Dijckman (as the instructions read and we have been informed by the reports of others) has been stricken in his memory, to send a capable person there to fill provisionally the office of president, and to take care of whatever concerns the office of the commissary there, until further orders circumstances.

What further regards the remainder of the petition, we shall draw up proper orders concerning them to send with the commissary. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra.