Document: Peremptory order to Hendrick Jansen to deposit certain moneys on pain of execution

The above petition, having been submitted and read, has been decided as follows: [several lines lost] summon hereof [ ] in the hands of the director general and councilors of New Netherland to [ ] as previously in arrears [ ] the concierge, Mattheus de Vos [ ] and authorized to proceed with the execution of the aforesaid Hendrick Jansen’s goods, as deemed fit, for the sum of four hundred and fifty guilders and the costs incurred by the petitioner. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 21st of December anno 1656.

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