Document: Nomination of persons recommended by the burgomasters and schepens to be public laborers

[several lines lost] that your honors deem necessary [ of ] the merchant, skipper, and [ ] nine sworn workers shall be employed to attend as much to the Company’s warehouse, the weighhouse as to the wine and beer transporting by turns with three of them, and if necessary to work altogether; and for that purpose we would nominate a double number.

Therefore, the schout and burgomasters of the city of Amsterdam in New Netherland, considering the necessity of the same, deem it appropriate (whereas presently there are not enough candidates to nominate a complete double number and consequently it can’t be done properly) to let the present workers, namely:

Adriaen Fincent

Tomas Fredricksz Noto, boss [overman]

Joseph Waldron Joost Goderisz Andries Andriessen

and Barent Jacobsz Cool, with approval of your esteemed honor and councilors continue, and as supplement of the aforesaid number to bring up for nomination the following, namely:

Cornelis Hendricksz Crijn Jacobsz

Jan Cornelissen Luycas Eldersz Willem Konck

And Philiph Jansz Ruigo, from whom the esteemed honorable general and councilors shall be pleased to select a single number and whereas it seems necessary to us that [several lines lost].

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