Document: Discharge of Mattheus de Vos, a soldier

At the session, present: the honorable lord director general Petrus Stuy- vesant, the honorable lord Nicasius de Sille, the lord La Montagne, and the lord Cornelis van Tienhoven, fiscal.

Having read the petition of Mattheus de Vos, as soldier in the service of the honorable West India Company, who arrived here on the ship de Waagh, requests, whereas he is incapable of carrying out the usual duties of a soldier because of his age and his extreme physical infirmity, that he may be discharged from his service because he has to earn a living here with the other burghers.

After deliberation it was resolved as follows: the petitioner is granted his request. Done at the session at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra.