Document: Petition of Joost Adriensen etc. for leave to build a saw and gristmill at Turtle falls on the South river

[To the noble, honorable director general of New Netherland, etc.[i]

Show with due reverence Joost Adriaensen and companions, that they are willing] to erect a saw [ and gristmill below the turtle’s ] falls, [ for which the place ] and some land belonging to it was granted to them by the [ provisional ] commies of the honorable West India Company subject to your honor’s approval. Therefore, the petitioners respectfully request that your honors please approve this and issue a patent for it. Which doing, etc,

(was signed) Joost Adriaensen in Comp

(dated in the margin) Nieuwer Amstel the 30th of April 1658.

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