Translation
Certificate of the director and council as to the regularity of a contract between Cornelis Claesen Swits and Ariaenje Cornelys Trommels
[ First several lines are lost. ]
. . . before the director-general and council [ ] in person, Cornelys Claesen Swits and Ariaenje Cornelysz Trommels [ ] island of Manhattan in New Netherland [ ] that he allowed, approved and agreed to [ ] contents and tenor of the present [ ] and procuration which they had drawn up by Dirrick van Schelluyn, notary appointed 9 September last past on behalf of Govert Loockermans, which we, director-general and councillors of New Netherland, gathered in council, declare today to be confirmed, since both parties have appeared before us with the document signed and affixed with the country's seal. Thus done in council in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, 16 September 1652.
References
Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 5, Council Minutes, 1652-1654 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1983).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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