Translation
Order forbidding the export of provisions and other articles
Whereas it is found that some persons are, contrary to the placard dated 12th instant
issued on the exportation of provisions and other goods, exporting a large quantity
of provisions, the Governor and Council of New Netherland have therefore thought to
prohibit and forbid, until further explanation of said Proclamation, the exportation
from this city from this day forth of ail provisions and other articles except so
much as each of the inhabitants of this Province residing on the flat land, shall
have need of for their families and no more. Further, the well disposed inhabitants
of this city are ordered and commanded from this day forward to begin to lay in a
supply of necessary provisions for their families for six or eight consecutive months
commencing next April. Let every one be warned hereby.
Dated Fort Willem
Hendrick, 22nd December, 1673.
References
Translation: O'Callaghan, E.B., trans./ed., Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York, vol. 2 (Albany: Weed, Parsons: 1858), pp. 569-730 (vol. 23, pp. 1-270 only).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.
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