Document: Appointment of assessors to value houses ordered to be pulled down near the fort

Holding Institution
New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1881-78_V23_0115
Description

Appointment of assessors to value houses ordered to be pulled down near the fort

Document Date
1673-10-11
Document Date (Date Type)
1673-10-11
Document Type
Appointment
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Translation
Translation

Messrs. Cornelis Steenwyck, Johannes van Brugh, Johannes de Peyster and Ægidius Luyck are hereby authorized and requested to value the lots of those who, on account of the fortification, are ordered to move, besides the necessary expenses to be incurred by them in the moving of their said houses; also to value the houses and lots which, according to their opinion, are to be given in return to said persons; with power to adjoin to themselves one @ two persons in the valuation of those houses and lots, and to report their proceedings to the Governor as soon as possible.

Dated Fort Willem Hendrick, this 11th October, 1673.

Translation Superscripts
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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
115
Link
https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/51813