[New Amsterdam]: Brugge, Carel van:

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[MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT, IN DUTCH, SIGNED BY CAREL VAN BRUGGE AS SECRETARY OF THE HIGH COUNCIL OF NEW NETHERLAND, RELATING TO THE CONVEYANCE OF PROPERTY FROM GERRITT JANSEN VAN OLDENBORGH TO THOMAS ... Carel van Brugge (d. 1682), who has signed this document in his official capacity as the secretary of the High Council, was in fact 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 over and New Amsterdam became New York, he resumed use of his English name.Thomas Hall (1614–1670), who is purchasing the Manhattan property referred to in this document, arrived in New Amsterdam in the 1630s, after being captured following a failed attack on Fort Nassau, an English attempt to establish settlement on the Delaware River. By the end of the 1630s he was operating a tobacco plantation, becoming a successful farmer and merchant. He was elected a member of the Eight Men in 1643 and the Nine Men in 1647.Quoted and translated in Gehring's New York Historical Manuscripts: "Appeared...before us,...Gerritt Jansen van Oldenborgh, citizen and inhabitant of New Netherland; and declared to have conveyed to Thomas Hall a certain piece of land according to the patent thereof dated 17 February 1646; containing in all 25½ morgens and

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