Document: Judgment in the case of Peter Dircksen Waterhond vs. David Ferrara

The director general and councilors of New Netherland, having seen and examined the judgment, pronounced by the burgomasters and schepens of this city, dated 18 October 1655, concerning a certain dispute between David Ferera, Jew, plaintiff, and Pieter Dircksz Waterhont, skipper on the ship N. Amsterdam, defendant, about a bill of lading signed by the skipper, demanding satisfaction of 40 anckers of spirits; which the defendant contends to have delivered to the Company’s warehouse, but under a mark other than the Jew’s mark as can be determined by the bill of lading and the general manifest, on which [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ] the defendant was to satisfy the [ ] (which he requested to have signed). The director general and councilors, having examined the further circumstances pertaining to the matter, which had not been exhibited and shown to the burgomasters and schepens previously, conclude the judgment, for the time being, to be well determined, and to be badly appealed; however, in as much as the director general and councilors see from additional documents that both the plaintiff and defendant have been compromised by the marking of the anckers in dispute, the parties are released from the judgment, and command then- fiscal to inform them about it and to proceed in such cases properly, as should have been done, so that the respective parties may receive proper justice. Ady ut supra. (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne.[1]