Document: Order appointing guardians and trustees of the motherless children of Jacob van Couwenhoven

The foregoing request having been [ ] was resolved as follows after due deliberation: Upon the request of the blood guardians of the [ ] left behind by Hester Jans, former housewife of Jacob van Couwenhoven, which Couwenhoven anno 1655 remarried Magdalena Jacobs, the persons Hendrick Jansz vander Vin and Isaacq Greveraet are commissioned and appointed as curators and guardians over the aforesaid estate and for the still minor children, with the complete charge and authorization to promote and care for the legal interests of the aforesaid children as is appropriate, and for this purpose to request and promote, as truthful as it ought to be, an overview and inventory, a repartition, separation, and division, and proof and remainder from the aforesaid Jacob Wolphertsen, voluntarily or involuntarily, and of the meetings give an account, proof, and remainder as ought to be done for the blood guardians Pieter van Couwenhoven and Govert Loockermans in the presence of those who will be commissioned thereto by the director general and councilors thereto commissioned. Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above.

P. Stuyvesant

Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman.