Document: Order to the soldiers who accompanied Adriaen Post's wife from Staten Island to return there with her

The foregoing petition having been received, she was granted the following decision:

Upon the request of the wife of Capt. Adriaen Post, it has been decided at the session of the director general and councilors of New Netherland that the soldiers, who came with the aforesaid woman from Staten Island, are ordered to be transported back to that place by the aforesaid woman, and to remain there until the departure of the ship de Waagh. of which she shall be notified 24 hours in advance. Ady ut supra.

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