Document: Petition of Salvador d'Andrada and other Jews that the burgomasters of New Amsterdam had refused to admit them to the right of citizenship

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0531
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Petition. Salvador d'Andrada and other Jews, complaining that the burgomasters of New Amsterdam had refused to admit them to the right of citizenship, with order to the said burgomasters to admit the petitioners to such privilege.

Document Date
1657-04-21
Document Date (Date Type)
1657-04-21
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[Copy.[i]

To the noble worships, the director general and councilors of New Netherland.]

We, the under[ signed, of the Jewish nation here, make known with due reverence, ] how [ it is ] that one [ of our nation repaired ] to the city [ hall of this city and requested of the noble ] burgomasters that [ he might obtain his burgher ] certificate, like other burghers, which to our great surprise was disallowed and refused by the honorable lords burgomasters, and whereas the honorable lords consented under date of February 15, 1655, at the request of our nation that we should enjoy here the same freedom as other inhabitants of New Netherland do, as appears from the petition here annexed; further, that our nation enjoys in the city of Amsterdam in Holland the burgher right, and those who ask for it receive a burgher certificate for it, as appears by the burgher certificate also hereto annexed; also that our nation, as long as they have been here, have, with others, borne and paid, and still bear, all burgher burdens. We, therefore, reverently request your honors to please not exclude nor shut us out from the burgher right, but to have the honorable lords burgomasters notified that they should permit us, like other burghers, to enjoy the burgher right, and for this purpose to give us the customary burgher certificates, in conformity with the order of the honorable lords directors mentioned above. Upon which, awaiting your honors’ approving and favorable decision, we shall remain, as we have been, (below was written)

Your honors’ humble servants (was signed)

Salvador Dandrada Jacob Cohen Henricque Abraham de Lucena Joseph d’Acosta

On the above petition it has been decided: The burgomasters of this city are hereby authorized and at the same time charged to admit the petitioners hereof and their nation to the burghership, in due form. Dated as above.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius deSille Pieter Tonneman

Translation Superscripts
[i]: Recovered text from translation in Samuel Oppenheim, The Early History of the Jews in New York (New York, 1909), 36.
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_0531.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.

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New Amsterdam
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The Burgomasters
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Salvador d'Andrada
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and other Jews
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Salvador Dandrada Jacob Cohen Henricque Abraham de Lucena Joseph d’Acosta
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