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Protest of Hendrick van Elswyck against the director and council for having seized the Swedish ship Golden Shark

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[ to conceal their plunder, ] to the great prejudice of the inhabitants of Fort Orange and the village of Beverwyck. Done at the session of the honorable director-general and high council held in New Amsterdam, 27 October 1654; and was signed: P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montangne, Cor. van Thienhooven.

The Noble Lord General, Director of New Netherland, and the Gentlemen of the High Council. 

Highly esteemed gentlemen.
Your noble honors are aware that, when on the 12/22 of last September[221] I arrived in this river of New Netherland with the ship, den Gulden Hay,[222] entrusted to me

Notes

The day is double dated because Sweden was still on the Julian calendar at this time and therefore ten days ahead of the Gregorian calendar.
The Swedish name for the ship was Gyllene Haj, "The Golden Shark."

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.