Document: Resolution granting a petition presented by the Nine men

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NYSA_A1809-78_V05_0017a
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Resolution. Granting the prayer of a petition, presented by the Nine men, requesting that no more hogs be shot on the wall (of the fort in New Amsterdam), and that the fort be surrounded by palisades.

Document Date
1652-02-12
Document Date (Date Type)
1652-02-12
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Resolution | Petition
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Translation

Monday the 12th of February 1652 at Fort Amsterdam, present the director-general, La Montagne and Brian Newton.

The board of nine men came into the council chamber and requested of the presiding officer that the honorable council please forbid the shooting of hogs on the walls of the fort and for this reason that the fort be enclosed with clapboards or in some other convenient way.]

The director-general approves the request of the commonalty and promises to have the necessary forts cut and furnished by his own servants or Negroes, with the commonalty bearing the expenses of putting up the palisades enclosing [ the fort ].

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_0017a.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.

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The Nine Men
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