# Nine Men
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{{Short description|Council of citizens in New Netherland}}
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{{New Netherland}}
The '''Nine Men''' was a council of citizens elected by the residents of [New Netherland](/source/New_Netherland) to advise its [Director General](/source/Director-General_of_New_Netherland) [Peter Stuyvesant](/source/Peter_Stuyvesant) on the governance of the colony. It replaced the previous body, the [Eight Men](/source/Eight_Men),[{{cite book |last=Jacobs |first=Jaap |title=New Netherland: A Dutch Colony In Seventeenth-Century America |year=2005 |publisher=BRILL |quote=Both in the way it was set up and in the extent of its rights, the council of Twelve Men, as did the two later advisory bodies ... | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uex2budtSOUC&pg=RA1-PA136 |isbn=90-04-12906-5 }}] which itself had superseded the [Twelve Men](/source/Twelve_Men). Members of this early form of representational democracy in North America were elected in 1647, 1649, 1650 and 1652.
On July 26, 1649, eleven current and former members of the board signed the ''Petition of the Commonality of New Netherland'', which requested that the [Estates-General](/source/States_General_of_the_Netherlands) take action to encourage [economic freedom](/source/economic_freedom) and force local government like that in the Netherlands, removing the colony from the control of the [Dutch West India Company](/source/Dutch_West_India_Company). It became the basis for the municipal government when the city of [New Amsterdam](/source/New_Amsterdam) received its charter in 1653.[{{cite web | title = About the City Council | publisher = New York City Council | url = http://www.council.nyc.gov/html/about/history.shtml | access-date = 2013-01-01 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120620053608/http://www.council.nyc.gov/html/about/history.shtml | archive-date = 2012-06-20 }} ]
==Members==
Members and the year of election:[{{cite web | title = New Amsterdam Notable Citizens | publisher = Geni.com | url = http://www.geni.com/projects/New-Amsterdam-Notable-Citizens/5376 | access-date = 2012-12-31}}]
*Key
:{{Color box|#7FFFD4|border=darkgray}} = Member of the council
:{{Color box|#DDDDFF|border=darkgray}} = Chairman
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Name
! 1647
! 1649
! 1650
! 1652
|-
|[Allard Anthony](/source/Allard_Anthony) (Antonides)
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|[Willem Beekman](/source/Wilhelmus_Beekman)
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|[Jan Evertsen Bout](/source/Jan_Evertsen_Bout)
|colspan="1" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|-
|Peter Cornelissen
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|Jan Jansen Damen
|colspan="1" {{yes2}} || colspan="3" style="background:white;"|
|-
|Isaac de Forrest
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|Thomas Hall
|colspan="1" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|-
|[Augustine Herman](/source/Augustine_Herman)
|colspan="3" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|-
|[Hendrick Hendricksen Kip](/source/Hendrick_Hendricksen_Kip)
|colspan="3" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|-
|[Jochem Pietersen Kuyter](/source/Jochem_Pietersen_Kuyter)
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|Govert Loockermans
|colspan="3" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|-
|[David Provoost](/source/David_Provoost)
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|Jacob Wolfertse van Couwenhoven
|colspan="3" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|-
|Jacobus van Curler
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|Paulus Leendertz Vandergrift
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|Arnoldus van Hardenbergh
|colspan="2" {{yes2}} || colspan="2" style="background:white;"|
|-
|Arent van Hattem
|colspan="3" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}}
|-
|Elber Elbertsen van Stoothoff
|colspan="1" style="background:white;"| || colspan="2" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|-
|[Oloff Stevense Van Cortlandt](/source/Stephanus_Van_Cortlandt)
|colspan="1" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" bgcolor=#DDDDFF | || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|-
|[Adriaen van der Donck](/source/Adriaen_van_der_Donck)
|colspan="1" style="background:white;"| || colspan="1" bgcolor=#DDDDFF | || colspan="2" style="background:white;"|
|-
|Michiel Jansen Vreelandt
|colspan="3" {{yes2}} || colspan="1" style="background:white;"|
|}
==See also==
*[Burgomaster](/source/Burgomaster)
*[Voorleser](/source/Voorleser)
*[Schepen](/source/Schepen)
*[Schout](/source/Schout)
*[Maryn Adriansen](/source/Maryn_Adriansen)
*[Abraham Isaacsen Verplanck](/source/Abraham_Isaacsen_Verplanck)
==References==
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Category:Nonets
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Category:1647 establishments in the Dutch Empire
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