Document: Petition of Brian Nuton to the directors of the W. I. Company for permission to return to New Netherland

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To the honorable lords directors of the chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam.

Reverently shows Brian Nuton, who departed for New Netherland with the director general Petrus Stuyvesant in 1646 in the capacity of captain lieutenant, and now having returned here with the Company’s ship de Coninck Salomon for some personal business (leaving his wife there), how that he presently, spoken without vanity, has served the Company well and faithfully for a period of twenty-five years at various places and in certain capacities, and whereas he presently, with your honors’ permission, would like to return to New Netherland with the private ship de Groote Christoffel riding at anchor; therefore, he, the petitioner, requests most reverently that your honors’ be pleased to continue him in his position, and to grant him such a recommendation to the aforesaid lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant, as your honors in their wise judgment shall deem appropriate, and because of his loyal service, of which he trusts the aforesaid lord Stuyvesant shall have made your honors aware. Having done this etc. (In the margin was written:) Fiat ut petitur,[1] dated: Done the 22d of October 1654 (and was signed:) Gijsbert Rudolphy.