Document: Petition of Peter Rudolphus for payment of an account

To the honorable director general and councilors of New Netherland.

Pieter Rudolphus, merchant at this place, shows with all due respect, how he, the petitioner, has delivered to your honors both on behalf of the same privately as well as servants of the honorable Company, since the year 1654, various goods and merchandise amounting to f2481,14 altogether, according to currency specifications, which sum he was promised would be paid in good merchantable peltries; and whereas he, the petitioner, is ready to depart from here for Holland, and is in urgent need of the payment, without which he also would not be able to leave. Therefore, he humbly requests that your honors be pleased to issue an order so that he may be paid for the aforesaid sum. Awaiting your honors’ favorable decision (below was written:) Your honors’ (and was signed:) Pieter Rudolphus.

The foregoing petition having been read, the following decision was made thereon:

To place this in the hands of the bookkeeper in order to compare and examine the attached account; and the receiver is ordered to pay as much to the petitioner as is possible. Ady ut supra.

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