Document: Council minutes of mitigation of the seizure of Mr. Willet's beavers and appointment of curators of the late Nicolas Davis's estate

27th of October. The petition of Thomas Willet being read and considered, in substance requesting, out of commisseration for the reasons set forth, that the judgment pronounced against him in the matter of the arrested beavers may be reconsidered and avoided;It is ordered:That sufficient indulgence is understood to have been already shown to the Petitioner by the Governor-General and Council, on account of the good report rendered by the inhabitants here of him; however, the Petitioner's further request being considered, and some credit being attached to what is therein adduced by him, the half of the seized and confiscated Beavers shall be restored to him, with the full understanding that they shall remain until further orders in arrest with his other attached goods, to be disposed of in due season as may be deemed proper. The other half shall as before remain confiscate; and it is considered that the Petitioner is hereby treated with great leniency.

Whereas it hath come to my knowledge that Mr. Thomas Gibbs and John Boun who, heretofore have, with Mr. Henry Taylor, been qualified as Curators over the estate of the late Nicolas Davis, excuse themselves from any further concern with said administration, therefore have I deemed it necessary in their place to adjoin with the abovenamed Henry Taylor two others as Curators of said estate, wherefore I have to this end commissioned and qualified, do hereby commission and qualify Mr. Jeronimus Ebbingh and Gabriel Minvielle as Curators with the abovenamed Mr. Taylor over said estate, in order to administer the same under benefit of inventory for the advantage of said creditors, to collect and sell the debts and effects, and to cause payment and distribution to be made to those who have lawful claim thereto; ordering and commanding the previous Curators to hand over the said estate of Nicolas Davis to the present Curators, and to render an account and reliqua of their administration.

Dated Fort Willem Hendrick this 27th of October, 1673.

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