Document: Letter from Richard Denton to Director General Stuyvesant

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Necessity forceth mee to bee further troublesome, [ ] Your Reverend Pastour (I present my humble [ ] the paines to come and have Mr. Carman [ ] face to face [ ] having to judge what should be done [ ]at difference. Hee s[ ] after your departure went to Hempstead, whence he returned [ ] till the Sabbath day laset in the evening. The next day I went to h[ ] Goodman Knowles this Bearer beeing with mee, and desir' d of him that which you appointed him to pay mee; Hee refuseth to doe it as this Bearer can testify, so that I am still a sufferer by him. I beseech you[ ] Worship to helpe me in these my sad straits and wrongs. I suppose Hee intend[ ] to remove himselfe and all his shortly to Hempstead thinking to put me to further trouble and charge, which I am very unfit for, not having either to pay my debts or to supply my wants unlesse I should sell the be[ ] from under me OF what else is as necessary for our subsistence. His ingagement is to pay every quarter: Three quarters are past, and for all him I may sinke or swim. I hope you Worship will so much the rather tender the Oppression and injustice under which my family grones, by how much the more regardlesse he is of us. Beseeching the Lord to blesse and prosper your Person, family and Government, I present my service to you, and humbly take my leave

MiddleburroughAprill 18th 1651

[ ADDRESSED: ] To the right Worshipfull and much honoured Govemour of the New Netherlands at his House in new Amsterdam these present.

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