Document: Order on a petition of Govert Loockermans for the pay of his brother Peter

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To the honorable lords director general and high councilors of New Netherland.[i]

Govert Loockermans, proxy for his brother Pieter Loockermans, former mariner in the service of the honorable West India Company here in this country, shows with all respect and obedient reverence how, according to the balance since 1645 here enclosed, he, petitioner, in the aforesaid capacity, still has the sum of ƒ469:16:12 coming to him from earned monthly wages. All possible efforts to receive payment thereof were made to the lords directors at the chamber of Amsterdam in Holland, but in vain, and whereas the petitioner’s aforesaid brother, being burdened with a wife and children, is greatly pressed for it, he therefore humbly requests that your honors kindly please order the receiver of the honorable Company’s means here to pay the aforesaid sum. Doing this, etc. (lower stood) Your honors’ obedient (was signed) Govert Loockermans

After deliberation, the above petition having been received and read, it is resolved as follows, the [several lines lost].