Document: Order to examine the papers of Cornelis van Tienhoven

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Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0453b

Description

Order. To examine the papers of Cornelis van Tienhoven, and to deliver such as are private to his wife, who is also empowered to sell some lots in the Smith's valley.

Document Date

1657-02-06

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-02-06

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

Rachel Vinge, wife of Cornelis van Tienhoven former fiscal and receiver of New Netherland, having appeared, requested that the papers sealed in a chest by order of the honorable lord director general and councilors of New Netherland might be looked at and examined, whether there were any papers, which her husband or her [several lines lost] Verbrugge and Mattheus de Vos, whom she had requested for it.

After due deliberation it was answered that the lord fiscal had orders for it, which he would do at once, and that the papers which didn’t concern the Company or the country would be placed in her hands.

Further, the aforesaid Rachel Vinge requested that she be allowed to sell her lots lying in the Smits Valeij,[i] as she presently had a good opportunity to do so, which she dared not do by virtue of the impoundment done on her real estate by the lord fiscal; also, that she might be allowed to sell her sheep.

After due deliberation, she has been permitted to sell her lots in Smits Valley for the maximum profit, on the condition that money is provided as security.

Translation Superscripts

[i]: Smits Vly: a meadow along the East River between Wall Street and Maiden Lane.

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_V08_0453b.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.