Document: Petition of Catrina Roeloffs, widow of Lucas Rodenborch, for permission to raise money on account of the salary due her husband as vice director of Curaçao

[several lines lost] by the one or the other [ ] to be allowed to withdraw [ ] guilders for reduction of her deceased husband’s earned wages.

After due deliberation it was decided: The petitioner is allowed as a reduction of her deceased husband’s earned wages, to withdraw the sum of six hundred guilders by one or the other merchant on account of the Company, the remaining four hundred guilders upon the arrival of the next ships. Dated as above.

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