Document: Order allowing the village of Gravesend two cannon and ammunition for its defense

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0357a

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Order. Allowing the village of Gravesend two cannon and ammunition for its defense, as it is now surrounded by pallisades.

Document Date

1656-04-10

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-04-10

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Order

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Order

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Translation

At the session present: the honorable lord general Petrus Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, and Cornelis van Tienhoven.

Having received and read the petition of the magistrates and inhabitants of the village of Gravesande, requesting, whereas they had enclosed their village with palisades, that they may be provided with 3 to 4 pieces of cannon and some munitions of war in order in time of need to be able to defend their village and its inhabitants from hostile attack.

After all due deliberation it has been resolved and decided to allow and grant them to use on behalf of the aforesaid village two of the pieces that are lying on the strand along the East River near the warehouse; they order the commissary to provide the petitioners with 50 pounds of powder, and for each piece of ordnance: 12 balls, 4 pounders. Thus done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

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_0357a.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.