Document: Order to credit Thomas Willett with a certain sum advanced in 1651 to Cornelis van Tienhoven

[several lines lost] to Cornelis [ ] in the

year 1651 [ ] of date [ ] resolved [ ] was found of the settlement [ ] so much [ was owed to ] said persons that it would be paid then, and because he was informed that the said persons were now credited with as much and still more, he requested that this might be put on his credit now, to which he was answered by the director general and councilors that Tienhoven’s account had not been settled yet. They offered the said Willet that in case it is discovered after liquidation that Tienhoven did not have that much credit, to restore the received [ money ] to him.

Having considered the request, after deliberation it is agreed, and the commissary is ordered that Mr. Tomas Willet shall be credited for the sum demanded, and that Cornelis van Tienhoven and George Baxtre each be debited for half. Done in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman

J. de Decker

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