Document: Petition of John Hicks for the enforcement of an order issued to Hendrik Jansen

John Hicx shows with all due reverence how Hendrick Jansen has remained in arrears for the money owed the petitioner which, according to your honors’ order dated 7 November, he was to place under security. Because the petitioner has been significantly abridged thereby, he reverently requests that your honors be pleased to order Hendrick Jansen, aforesaid, to place the money that the petitioner owes him in your honors’ hands, or of those designated by your honors under security within eight days upon pain of immediate execution; and that the aforesaid Hendrick Jansen be condemned for the costs incurred and to be incurred by the petitioner in this matter. Anticipating your honors’ favorable disposition and remaining (written below) your esteemed lords’ subject and servant (was signed) John Hicksz (dated) Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 14th of December anno 1656.

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