Document: Grant to Thomas Wheeler and other settlers to reside at Vreedland

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0336a

Description

Grant. The above petitioners to reside at Vreedland, on taking the oath of allegiance, and to have the same privileges as Breuckelen, Midwout, and Amesfoort.

Document Date

1656-03-16

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-03-16

Document Type

Grant

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Grant

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Translation

[ The director ] general [ and council of New Netherland having ] seen and further considered the foregoing petition, grant to the petitioners that, upon taking an oath of allegiance as good [ subjects ] of this province, they may remain and live at the place called Vreedlant on such conditions and [ patents ] as other free people in the villages of Middelborch, [Breukelen], Midwout, and Amesfoort enjoy; likewise, they shall have the right of nominating a double number of officers and magistrates for the better governing of the aforesaid village of Vreedlant, whose selection and confirmation is reserved to the director general and councilors (in conformity with the general orders). Thus done in our session held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra, the 15th of March 1656. (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, Cornelis 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_0336a.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.