Document: Order on the petition of Edward Scharburch for leave to sail with some negroes to Virginia

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Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0080a

Description

Order. Petition of Edward Scharburch, praying leave to sail with some negroes to Virginia, granted, provided he give security that he will not enter the South river (Delaware) during the voyage (see vol. 3, p. 135).

Document Date

1655-08-24

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-08-24

Document Type

Order

Petition

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Order | Petition

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Translation

Tuesday, 29 August 1655.

At the session the petition of Edmund Scharburch was read, requesting permission to depart from here with his bark for Virginia with some purchased Negroes. After due deliberation it was decided to approve the petition provided that the petitioner post bond[1] for the value of five thousand pounds sterling neither directly nor indirectly to sail into the South Bay or the aforesaid river, and that his crew promise under oath not to do the same, or give any information to anyone at sea or on land. Ady ut supra.

Translation Superscripts

[1]: See Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1648-1660, NYHM, 3:416, for the bond.

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_0080a.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.