Document: Commission of Messrs. Steenwyck and five others to be delegates

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1881-78_V23_0007a
Description

Commission of Messrs. Steenwyck and five others to be delegates

Document Date
1673-08-14
Document Date (Date Type)
1673-08-14
Document Type
Commission
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Translation
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This 14th August, 1673: The following answer was delivered by Deputies from the Commonalty of the city of New Orange, to the Commanders and Council of War.

No. 2. The Commonalty of the city of New Orange being convoked at the City Hall, and it being proposed to them by order of the Honorable Commanders and adjoined Council of War of the fleet to elect persons from the Commonalty to confer with said Commanders and Council of War, they have, accordingly, by plurality of votes, elected Mr. Cornelis Steenwyck, Mr. Cornelis van Ruyven, Mr. Johannes van Brugh, Mr. Johannes de Peyster, Captain Marten Cregier, and Secretary Nicolas Bayard.

Dated at New Orange, this 14th of August, 1673.

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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.

To Party 1
To Party 1
Cornelis Steenwyck (ID: 1,660,234)
To Party 2
To Party 2
Cornelis Van Ruyven (ID: 1,660,202)
Related Ancestors (Unlinked)
Johannes de Peyster
Nicolas Bayard
Related Ancestors
Johannes van Brugh (ID: 256)
Marten Cregier ( Kriger, Creiger, Krieger) (ID: 1,660,043)
Document Location
Document Finding Aid or Collection
New Netherland Council Dutch colonial administrative records (Series A1881 _ 1673-1674)
Box
17
Volume
23
Item
7a
Link
https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/51722