Document: Oath of office of councillor Tonneman

I, Pieter Tonneman, appointed as adjunct councilor of New Netherland by the director general and first councilor, upon approval of the honorable lords directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber at Amsterdam, hereby promise and swear to be loyal and true in this capacity to the honorable high mighty States General of the United Netherlands together with the lords directors of the Chartered West India Company [several lines lost] comport myself in this capacity and behave as a loyal person of the council is obliged to do, so truly help me God Almighty.

On the 3rd of January 1657 the foregoing oath was administered to Pieter Tonneman in the presence of the lord fiscal De Sille.

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