Document: Petition of Paulus Schreck that an attachment which he sued out against the wages of Jean Paul Jacquet may be declared valid

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To the honorable lord Pieter Stuyvesant, director general together with the honorable lords high councilors in N: Netherland.

Paulus Schreck shows with very humble respect how on balance of a promissory note the sum of one hundred and eighty-three guilders and ten stivers is still due to him from Jan Paulo Jacquet, for which, in order to pay it, the petitioner in the past would rightly have received him at the South River. Therefore, he, petitioner, in order to get his security, has had the remaining wages and monies by the highly esteemed West India Company due to the said Jacquet attached here at the office, requesting therefore that your honors and highly esteemed will please allow the attachment, and that the petitioner be allowed to collect the aforesaid ƒ183:10 with costs under appropriate security, or that he be given credit for it by your honors. Which doing, etc. (:lower stood:)

Your honors’ obedient servant (:was signed:) Paulus Schreck

[several lines lost] [ ] declared,[i] and the petitioner [ ] to have a copy hereof delivered to Johan [ Jacquet ].

Dated as above.