Translation
Petition of the burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam requesting that delegates be summoned from the respective Dutch towns and villages
To their Honors, the Director- General and Council of New Netherland.
The present mayors and schepens of this city of New Amsterdam make known with all due
respect that:
Whereas our commissioners Martin Crigier and Poulus Leendersz vande
Grift informed our board concerning what the assembly of commissioners on behalf of
your honors, us and the respective English villages finally resolved on the 27th of
November (the motives of which can be related verbally to your honors) that the
commissioners from all the Dutch and English villages and settlements shall assemble
on the 10th of next month to write to the lords-directors, as lords and superiors of
this province, about the present state of affairs here. Therefore, we, the aforesaid
mayors and schepens, fully comprehending the necessity of the same, make the friendly
request of your honors to summon commissioners from the respective Dutch villages and
settlements to appear on the appointed day and make such a remonstrance to the lords
directors for the peace and welfare of the country as shall be considered necessary.
In expectation of your honors' favorable decision, done in council this 29 November
1653 at New Amsterdam.
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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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