[New Amsterdam]: Brugge, Carel van:

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[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT, IN DUTCH, SIGNED BY CARL VAN BRUGGE AS SECRETARY OF THE HIGH COUNCIL OF NEW NETHERLAND, RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY FROM CORNELIS CLAESSEN SWITS TO WILLIAM ... Carel van Brugge (d. 1682), who has signed this document in his official capacity as the Secretary of the High Council, despite going by his Dutch name, was an Englishman named Charles Bridges who had arrived in New Amsterdam via Curaçao. He came to New Netherland with Stuyvesant in May 1647 and was made Commissary at Fort Orange in November 1647, Commissary of the Provincial Accounts in 1651, and Provincial Secretary and ex officio Vendue Master in 1652. After the English took New Amsterdam, he resumed use of his English name.Wilhelmus Hendricksen Beeckman (1623-1707) also came to New Amsterdam with Peter Stuyvesant in 1647 and became the Treasurer of the Dutch West India Company. He served in various official capacities in New Amsterdam, including being appointed one of the five original schepens of the city. Cornelisz Claeszen Swits (1610-1655) was the son of Claes Cornelisz Swits (1576-1641), an early Swiss immigrant to New Amsterdam, who was killed by a Weckquaesgeek touching off what would become known as Kieft's War and the extermination of the tribe between 1643 and 1645.For the conveyance from Swits to Beeckman on the same date, and presumably relating to the same property, see Charles T. Gehring, ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. GG, HH & II, Land Papers (Balt

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