Document: Letter from the Directors at Amsterdam to the Director and Council

Esteemed, Pious, Beloved, Faithful.

What Moses da Silva, Jewish merchant, has requested of us here, your honors shall see in the accompanying copies of his petitions presented to us, and whereas we fully perceive from the attachments thereto that not only is the aforesaid da Silva fit to make his reasonable request but also that your honors' judgement on behalf of the former Fiscal Tienhoven pronounced about the 14th of March last past, which we cannot see for what reasons it was left unsettled, and the effect thereof not enjoyed by the aforesaid Da Silva; therefore, after examination of the same and for the promotion of justice, we have hereby resolved to instruct and recommend that your honors hold the aforesaid Tienhoven thereto so that the aforesaid Silva may attain satisfaction according to the aforesaid judgment, or by refusal thereof that the aforesaid judgment be executed according to the tenor of the law. Relying hereby, Esteemed, Pious, Beloved, Faithful, we commend your honors to Gods protection, and remain,

Amsterdam, the 16th of November, 1656.

[ ADDRESSED: ] To the Director and Councilors in New Netherland.

Isaack van Beeck
Paulus Timmerman