Provisional Regulations for the Colonists

 

Source: HathiTrust. Documents relating to New Netherland.

The page above is a transcription and translation from the Documents relating to New Netherland, 1624-1626, in the Henry E. Huntington Library, translated and edited by A. K. F. van Laer. The original provisional regulations would have been read to the colonists who embarked on the ship Nieuw Nederland on 30 March 1624. Our 10th-great-grandparents Philippe du Trieux, Susanna Du Chesne, their children, and other Walloon immigrants were on that first ship from Amsterdam to settle the New Netherland colony for the Dutch West India Company.

Source: HathiTrust. Original Dutch text, 1624.

The transcription of the original text and letters from the Dutch West India Company provide a fascinating light into the early years of the colony.

I've now joined the Association of Philippe du Trieux Descendants, and am still reading Russell Shorto's The Island at the Center of the World.