Document: Order of the sheriff of the Breuckelen district to have a hog restored to Dirck Volkertsen

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0001b

Description

Order. Sheriff of the Breuckelen district to have a hog restored to Dirck Volkertsen.

Document Date

1655-01-06

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-01-06

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

The honorable lords high councilors of New Netherland having seen and examined the material submitted concerning a certain boar in dispute between Dirck Volckertsz and Pieter Cornelisz living on Long Island in the jurisdiction of Breuckelen, find, according to the decision of arbitrators dated 19 Dec. and additional documents presented to us, that the aforesaid boar belongs to Dirck Volckertsz, and therefore order Davit Provoost, as schout of the place, to notify the aforesaid Pieter Cornelisz to restore and return the boar to Dirck Volckertsz as owner, with expenses.

Done at New Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra (was signed:) Nicasius de Sille, Cor. van Tienhoven.

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_V06_0001b.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.