Document: Resolution forbidding the sailing of vessels in port and the departure of any passengers able to bear arms

11 October

The director general and councilors having considered the present circumstances in the land, have, for important reasons, in the presence of the burgomasters and schepens of this city, deemed it advisable not to allow the homeward bound ships, now lying ready to sail, to depart before the warship de Waagh, which is expected any day, has arrived. Regarding the passengers who to the number of about 60 have given notice to depart with the aforesaid ships, it has been unanimously deemed advisable, for the increased security of the country, that no passengers capable of bearing arms be allowed to depart for the present time, unless God makes changes for the better.

Done at Fort Amsterdam, (was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, La Montagne, Van Tienhoven, Oloff Stevensen, Joannes Nevius, Jacob Strijcker, J. Vinge. 11 October 1655.