Document: Order postponing the consideration of a petition of Allard Anthony for return of some confiscated goods

At the session, having read the petition of Allard Antony requesting restitution of some (so he says) unjustly confiscated goods, which arrived here in New Netherland by the small ship, it was resolved after deliberation, because the present time did not allow review of the papers, documents and orders, and in order to provide sufficient response to the request of the petitioner because of the aforesaid expedition and the necessary arrangements that he has to make to prepare for it, the petitioner is granted a delay until the lord general and the accompanying councilors on the expedition shall have returned, when a recommendation shall be granted him according to the requirements of the case. Ady ut supra. 29 August 1655.[1]

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