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Order on a petition of the magistrates of Midwout

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[At the request of the magistrates of Midwout for assistance by the inhabitants of Breukelen and Amesfoort in cutting and hewing timber to erect] a dwarshuys [1] for the [ exercise of divine service, for which ] they received the permission by a resolution of their honors, the director general [ and council ] in 1654, [ it was, upon the vote being taken, resolved that ] after the celebration of the [ Lord’s Supper now at hand ] a committee of [ the high council ] shall go there with Domine Megapolen- sis. Done at Amsterdam, in New Netherland, ady ut supra.[2]

Notes

A building whose gable ends are perpendicular to the street.
This appears in NYCD, 14:312, as part of Polhemius’s petition.

References

Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 6, Council Minutes, 1655-1656 (Syracuse: 1995). A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.