Detail View: New Amsterdam Records: Burgomasters & Schepens Vol. 2: Register of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens of the City of New Amsterdam, Sept. 1654 to January 1657.

Identifier: 
RNA_t2
Title: 
Burgomasters & Schepens Vol. 2: Register of the Court of Burgomasters and Schepens of the City of New Amsterdam, Sept. 1654 to January 1657.
Creator: 
O'Callaghan, E. B. (Edmund Bailey), 1797-1880
Subject: 
New Amsterdam (N.Y.)
Subject: 
New York (N.Y.)
Description: 
Bound manuscript translation with index. Corresponds to books 3, 4, and 5 of the original Dutch records.
Date: 
1848-1868
Type: 
Text
Source: 
Manuscript Translations
Language: 
English
Notes: 
In 1848, E.B. O'Callaghan was hired by the City Council to complete the translations started by Cornelius Westbrook. This volume begins with the resolution to hire hm, as recorded by D.T. Valentine, Clerk of the Council. This volume picks up after Westbrook's translation of the first 2 books of ordinances and court minutes.