Document: Appointment of sheriff and magistrates of Flushing

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0338b

Description

Appointment. Sheriff and magistrates of Flushing.

Document Date

1656-03-25

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-03-25

Document Type

Appointment

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Appointment

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Translation

Having received and read at the session the nominations made by the magistrates and inhabitants of the village of Vlissingen with the request that the director general and councilors would be pleased to select their magistrates from the same; therefore, for coming year the director general has selected and confirmed from the nominations:

For schout William Hallet;

for senior magistrate William Laurence;

for second Edward Farrington;

for junior William Noble.

Thus done at our session held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra.

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_0338b.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.