Document: Petition of Peter Lucassen for payment of his account

[several lines lost] and councilors of New Netherland

Skipper Pieter Luycassen makes known with all due reverence how it is that in the year 1654 your esteemed honors used him, petitioner, and his ship Abrahams Offerhande to seize the Swedish ship now named the Haij; and as he, petitioner, as a result had to pay expenses both for the soldiers as well as other things according to the recognition annexed hereto, and whereas the petitioner has received no compensation for it, he, the petitioner, is turning to your esteemed honors with the reverent request that your honors be pleased to order that he, petitioner, be paid for the aforesaid expenses at the discretion of your esteemed honors, which doing, I remain,

Your esteemed honors humble and obedient subject and servant.

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Pieter Luycassen