Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. IV
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'"' No one, whether military or freeman, following the business of selling strong drink, shall presume to take in pledge or endeavor to embezzle any property belonging to the military in exchange for strong drink, under the forfeiture of the tapped drink and to return to the owner free of cost and charges the receiv ed property and pay in addition a fine of twelve sey as often as he is discovered so doing.
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" All those who follow the trade of selling strong drink are further warned not to sell nor furnish any strong drink on the Lord's Rest and Sabbath day much less entertain any clubs, whether before or after the sermon on pain of forfeiting the strong drink tapped on that occasion, and in addition a fine of five and twenty guilders as often as they shall be caught in the act.
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"Those who sell strong drink are also further warned they take heed not to sell any to the military either on credit or on account, be it in what manner it may be, on pain of not being paid therefor, unless on order of his superior officer. Tuus pone by the Capt. Lieutenant and Valiant Council of War in the Village Wildwyck, this 13th August 1663."
14'b ditto. Sent out fifty reapers to the burnt village, called the Great Plot, and sent with them about thirty wagonsand Ensign Neissen with a convoy of Eighty men ; gave him orders to remain there all night with the reapers and binders, and the major part of the wagons and forty men per convoy. The remaining forty: