Document: Order referring Peter Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven to the burgomasters and schepens of New Amsterdam

Let this first and foremost be presented to the burgomasters and schepenen and to request their revisions concerning the judgment given against the security in place of the principal, beforehand to overcome the debt, and to execute together with this, taking into consideration whether the period of qualification for pledging security had not expired, and, what further the petitioner has alleged and presented to that effect. Meanwhile, the officer is ordered to postpone the execution against the security for revision by the burgomasters and schepenen or in more detail by the director general and councilors. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 6th of December anno 1656 (was signed) P. Stuyvesant (below stood) By order of the lord general of New Netherland (was signed) C. van Ruyven, secretary.

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