Document: Petition of Abbe Claesen for payment of an account due by the Swedish Company

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New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0613

Description

Petition. Abbe Claesen for payment of an account due by the Swedish Company.

Document Date

1657-06-14

Document Date (Date Type)

1657-06-14

Document Type

Petition

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Petition

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Translation

Copy.[i]

To the honorable Petrus Stuyvesant, director general of New Netherland.

Highly esteemed lord.

Abbe Claesen humbly requests that his enclosed account, amounting to the sum of ƒ377, may be paid him out of the property, which the lord Risingh has left here, considering that he, petitioner, is in great need of it, as he has nothing else to live on in his old age and is not very well able to do any work as formerly to gain his living, because of the paralysis[ii] of one of his hands; doing this, remains,

Your esteemed honor’s humble servant. (was signed) X This mark was made by the aforesaid Abbe Claesz. Follows the account attached to this:

Translation Superscripts

[i]: Recovered text from translation in NYCD 12:191–192.
[ii]: Verlammingh.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0613.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.