Records of the Government of New Netherland
21
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
June 27 1652
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland do hereby order, for the prevention of accidents, that no wagons, carts or sleighs shall be run, ridden or driven at a gallop within this city of New Amsterdam, but that the drivers and conductors of all wagons, carts and sleighs within this city shall .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
22
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
June 27 1652
Abstract:
Whereas the director general and council have certain information and knowledge that, notwithstanding the former order and prohibition issued in the time of the honorable director general Kieft,1 some inhabitants attempt with skiffs, boats, canoes and other craft, to go on board of ships and yachts .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
23
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
July 1 1652
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland, to all who see, read or hear these presents read, greetings..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
24
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
October 9 1652
Abstract:
Whereas many guns are daily discharged and fired at partridges and otherwise within the jurisdiction of this city of New Amsterdam and in the vicinity of the fort, by which firing people or cattle could easily be struck and injured, against which practice complaints have already been made..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
25
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
March 20 1653
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland observing the population and growth of this province both through procreation and increase, which we must thankfully acknowledge as a special blessing of God, as well as by the arrival of many passengers who have come over within the last two or three .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
26
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
March 26 1653
Abstract:
The director general and council having considered the low state of the treasury together with the great expenses and charges which the honorable Company has to bear here, beyond the monthly wages and board of its officers, for the civil, ecclesiastical and military administrations which have daily .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
27
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
August 18 1653
Abstract:
Whereas invoices indicate that wines are more expensive in the fatherland than formerly, and as a result the tavern keepers purchase them here at a higher price; and in addition, because of the preceding ordinance, they are taxed somewhat higher, as may be seen by the tenor thereof..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
28
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
November 19 1653
Abstract:
The following ordinances were issuedsince the arrival of the secretaryCornelis van Ruyven, namely,1653 in November.1.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
29
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
January 19 1654
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland, to all who hear or see this read, greetings..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
30
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
January 28 1654
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland, to all those who see or hear this read, greetings..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
31
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
April 8 1654
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland, to all who hear or see this read, greetings.1.........
Repository:
New York State Archives
32
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Abstract:
To all those who shall see or hear this read, greetings. The director general and high council of New Netherland let it be known that great confusion and disorder prevail more and more among the ferrymen on both sides of the ferry of Manhattan, to the great disservice of the passengers and inhabitants .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
33
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
August 20 1654
Abstract:
Ordinance according to which the provost marshal in New Netherland on the island of Manhattan is to regulate himself..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
34
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland, to all those who see this or hear it read, greetings. Let it be known that during the tenure of their administration, now continued for seven consecutive years, they have constantly and at various times and occasions explained to the representatives .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
35
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland, to all those who see or hear this, greetings..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
36
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
March 10 1655
Abstract:
Renewal of the subsequent orders and regulations on the inspection of New Netherland tobacco by the director general and council of New Netherland, in the presence of the burgomasters of this city of New Amsterdam, done and enacted in the year 1653, the 18th of February..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
37
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
August 28 1655
Abstract:
The captains and officers of the militia of this city petitioning the director general and council whether the Jewish nation resident in this city should mount the guard under their militia banners, which being considered and deliberated upon, first, the aversion and disaffection of this militia to .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
38
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Abstract:
The honorable lord director general and council of New Netherland hearing daily, to their great regret, serious complaints that posts, rails, clapboards and other fences built by the inhabitants at great expense, difficulty and effort around cultivated land and gardens for the preservation of sown land .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
39
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland, having considered on the one side the great, excessive and immoderate profit that the brewers demand for their brewed beers, and on the other side the repeated complaints referred by the inhabitants of this province to the brewers, that, upon the imposition .........
Repository:
New York State Archives
40
Creator:
New York (Colony). Council.
Title:
Series:
A1875
Dates:
December 31 1655
Abstract:
The director general and council of New Netherland, to all those who hear or see this read, greetings..........
Repository:
New York State Archives
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