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Honorable, highly Esteemed, Wise, Prudent and very Discreet Lords, the Honorable Director-General and High Council of New Netherland etc.
Item, Cornells Moutrits, Styntjen Pieters, Frans Cryger and Marten Roosemondt also show that Mr. Injossa threatens to impound the whole estate until the guardians and executors have given him an account and the rest of the clapboards because he says that the effects [ ] the aforesaid wood was paid out of the [ ] was received by the deceased [ ], because of these threats and other obstructions it is very difficult for the executors to pay any burial costs or make necessary expenditures, much less pay any wages or collect outstanding debts, although we know that it has been requested of the court here several times by petition. Therefore, the estate is in great danger of suffering, from one [ source ] or the other, complete loss of capital, and becoming insolvent; whereby they, the petitioners could be interned, so that the guardians and executors find it difficult even to take charge of the estate. Therefore, they say that they want an advance, and then some people would be paid or some outstanding debts would be collected so as not to endanger their own private means. Thus they find it necessary, for these reasons and many others, which they can better state themselves, to request, with all due respect, of your highly esteemed Honors in an open letter that a privilege of inventory
[ be granted ].
Thus they, the petitioners, make known in their capacity [ ] as executors and debt-collectors of the aforesaid house of the deceased, that they collectively petition, with all due respect, your Honors, the director-general and high council of New Netherland, to give all possible assistance to the guardians and executors, and to grant them [ ] writ of prerogatives and [ ] to confirm this on our behalf; and to grant wages according to the will of the deceased; to appoint two persons to value the moveable goods and to instruct that they be sold in order to pay for funeral expenses and all other expenses related to the estate; collecting all outstanding debts [ ] if necessary compelling payment justly for the maximum profit of all creditors, executors and orphans of the deceased. Requesting, with all due respect your Honors assistance herein etc.
Cornells Mouris BoutFrans CrigierMartin Roseman D: de Haert
Done in the colony New Amstel in the South River of New Netherland, 22 Feb. 1661
The following was paid by Cornelis Va[ ]
L The following [ ] has received [ ] Lord-Director.
1657
1658
General Expenditures Relating to the Wood:
General Expenses for the Wood:
6 January 1658, I paid Jan Jossen[4] and his co-workers for cutting wood, as follows:
Elmerhuysen Klein
16 March 1658, Jacob Schwenschen received for cutting the wood:
For chopping the bark off the clapboards, advanced
Elmerhuysen Klein
23 February 1658, Schwenne's sons, received for cutting the wood:
PIETER KOCHQ, paid for cutting wood, as received by Oly Fransen.
Elmerh[ uysen Klein ]
