Document: Petition of Allard Anthony for payment of a bill of salt beef he furnished

At the session, present as before.

To the honorable lords director general and councilors of New Netherland.

Allard Antony shows with all proper respect how he, the petitioner, sold to the honorable lord director general at the end of the year 1654 a certain quantity of salted meat, amounting to the sum of sixteen hundred guilders, 15 stivers, according to the commissary’s receipt, on the condition that the aforesaid lord general would pay to the skipper of de Peereboom or to his deputy, for the account of the petitioner, the sum of about 12 hundred guilders in beavers, and the remaining amount, being about four hundred and sixty guilders, to be paid by the aforesaid lord general in sugar as soon as the aforesaid lord general had returned from the Caribbean islands; and whereas until now no payment has been received, I am turning to your honors, requesting that your honors order that I may be granted such. Which doing, shall oblige your honors’ humble servant (was signed:) Allard Antony.