Document: Minute that 1,500 guilders was borrowed from Thomas Willet by the director-general for the public service

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0087b

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Minute. That the above sum was borrowed by the director-general, on his personal security, for the public service and is to be repaid by the company.

Document Date

1655-08-31

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-08-31

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Minutes

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Minute

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Translation

This above promissory note of fifteen hundred guilders has been executed by the honorable director general Petrus Stuyvesant, as his personal debt, to the benefit of Mr. Willeth, and the aforesaid lord general will take the sewant on the expedition to the South River to be used for the service of the Company wherever it shall be needed, whether it be expended as payment for the soldiers, expenses, provisions or gifts to the natives; therefore, it is appended to the note that in case of misfortune (may God forbid) this amount shall accrue to the debt of the Company and be paid from its assets in this country, to which we the undersigned attest.

Ady ut supra. (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Cornelis van Tienhoven, Cornelis van Ruyven. 31 August 1655.

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_0087b.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.