Document: Petition of Walewyn van der Veen for director and council to enforce a certain order of the city court [Copy of 8:210]

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NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0333
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Petition. Walewyn van der Veen, praying director and council to enforce a certain order of the city court, and oblige Allard Anthony to render him an account. [Copy of 8:210]

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1656-09-26
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1656-09-26
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To the highly esteemed lords director general and high councilors of New Netherland.

Walewijn vander Veen makes known with all due reverence how it is that he in his capacity has proceeded thus far against Allard Anthony that the same Allard Anthony has been ordered by the court of this city, pursuant to a judgment of arbitrators, within four times 24 hours, following a summons of the same order to the petitioner to submit a proper account to the petitioner, or by failure thereof to be physically compelled thereto by imprisonment, as can be seen in the accompanying extract. [several lines lost] his arrival here from time to time with frivolous and impudent evasions and exceptions has been held up by Allard Anthony aforesaid himself now already for months, following the date of the judgment pronounced by the aforesaid court that he, Allard Anthony, manage with that a while longer, to the great damage and inconvenience of the petitioner; for which reason he finds it necessary to approach your honors, reverently asking for justice to be upheld in the event Allard Anthony does not proceed with the execution of a proper account within the prefigured and ordered time, so that the officer may be authorized and commanded to properly execute the aforesaid order. (was signed: Wal: vander Veen.)

The foregoing petition, having been submitted and read, has been resolved after deliberation: The condemned, remaining deficient within the prefigured time, according to the intermediary judgment of the burgomasters and schepenen, to place the account in debit form in the petitioner’s hand, can [ ] the execution of the sentence can be requested from the burgomaster and schepenen.

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From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York.  https://www.archives.nysed.gov/  

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0333.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the
New Netherland Institute website.

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