The Holland Society of New York - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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I2O t onl in the Transvaal but in America and no y , throughout the world wherever men love Liberty and exalt those who are its heroes and .martyrs We pray that the Republic to which General ,Ioubert consecrated his life may be preserved, and that your heroic land may ever be the home of Freemen. With the hope that you may find some conso- . h. lation in your sorrow by the assurance that in t 1S far-off commonwealth founded by our common an- cestors you have warm friends who tenderly regard and esteem the name of Joubert, we subscribe our- selves on behalf of the Holland Society of New York, u Your Kinsmen, HENRY VAN DYKE, Pefeszkient. THEODORE M. BANTA, ' Sewfeiaafy. The letter of which the above is a copy was sent by mail, and was returned by the Post-Office authorities at Cape Town. It was again for- warded through Hon. W. Leyds, Representa- tive of the Transvaal Republic at Brussels. SEQ- 4... Ah I I LP i ,. 'I NP NI-l 1 Q P' ll li ' 4 I H 'ii .' 2. ll ,M A 1 9 .4 V 5. ' 112' X - I , 1 is I QI. Im my ll i gli' 'f RI 4 'I l ,. 3 I 5 R .yy Y v I in I .Q ' 3 x 3-N-N -E . . ff, 1 ff ,, ..,. 5 I I' I A . J 'S Yi rg I - x I .I 6 . -I I 2 all II I X3 . mug -1 '

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F l 4' l ls, ,V C T l e+lb- .l : I -L .4 S w-af?-sf: ,..-T . Q' . p t.. 9 1' Q -if Q u ez, I ., Q 16,5533 Y Q if fig' T Q 'E A ' S QS., . if 2 P V 64 f ig, 3 ' SYMPATHY WITH MADAME JOUBERT. Tm: TIOLLAND Socu-:rv or Nrzw Yoxx. N1-:wYoR1-1, une 1 , 1 . MRS. P. J. JOUBERT, J 5 900 Pretoria, South African Republic. DEAR MADAM : A meeting of the Trustees of the Holland Society of New York was held last evening, the first stated gathering since the lamented death of your distinguished husband. VVe recalled the occa- sions when in I 890 our Societyhad the honor of enter- taining General joubert at a banquet, and when at a reception given at the residence of our then President, Hon. Robert B. Roosevelt, we had the pleasure of making your acquaintance also. The Trustees instructed the Gfficers of the So- ciety to convey to you the expression of our most sincere sympathy in the great bereavement which has befallen you personally in the loss of your illus- trious consort, and which your afflicted country has experienced in being deprived of his invaluable ser- vices in this time of its sore need. As we have known of General Joubert, in the purity of his life, the wisdom of his statesmanship, the pre-eminence of his military genius, the de- votion of his life to the interests of his beloved country,- the brave little Republic amid the moun- tains and veldts of South Africa,- we feel that his name will ever be held in admiration and reverence, II9

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---1 V W--- ,..-....... .,...-4 4..- , , ,WL V ,. Q.. . , . 1 ,,,-, ,,-,...,A Y.,-., in 'V 1924 ,gi R SP. 32 thief QCD ci 0 'X 'Www-XM YQ! S922 fd, Q2 QD fwf 'Alibi I I DUTCH RECORDS IN THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE, NEW YORK. HE Year Book for rgoo contained a calendar of the Orphans' Court and a synopsis of books of two Nota- . ries Public during the Dutch period. The city had A already published a series of volumes 'containing the proceedings of the Burgomasters' Court. Other books in the Clerk's office contain records of conveyances of real estate and mortgages for a brief period of the Dutch refglnze. Valenlz'ne's Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York for 1857, 1861, and 1865 contained brief abstracts of some of these conveyances, without any index. Indexes of conveyances and mortgages, however, are found in the Clerk's'ofIice and we have prepared a copy thereof and have indicated the pages of Valen- Z'z'ne's Manual on which the abstracts of conveyance can be found. There is also a volume in English in the Clerk's office, which is unlabeled and unindexed, containing grants of lands from the Indians and from the West India Company and a few miscel- laneous items. As these are not in chronological order it is evident that the book is not an exact translation of an original book of record. We give the names of the grantees just as they appear and have prepared an alphabetical index which follows. The volume contains a description of the land. The numbers are of the pages of the book in the Clerk's office. We first give an abstract of the contents of this last mentioned vol- ume-it being understood that the heading does not appear in the book but is adopted by the compiler. 1 I2I . - I I, sv