Document: Petition of Nicholas Varlett for permission to receive merchants' goods on storage in the public store

[several lines lost] Gives [ ] Varlet, commies, [ ] here how it is that the merchants often trouble him

[ ] the honorable Company [ ] are no goods in the warehouse, to be allowed to store their tobacco and other goods for a few days, because there is no other possibility in the weighhouse or in that area, and this for their tobacco barrels; otherwise, they sit too long in the open air, to their noticeable damage, before they can be brought home. Therefore, he reverently requests that your honors be pleased to allow him to let the aforesaid merchants’ tobacco barrels and other goods be brought into the Company’s warehouse (without risk and damage for the Company) for their convenience for a period of time on the condition of paying for each barrel or chest to the benefit of the honorable Company and petitioner as much as your esteemed honors, with discretion, shall deem appropriate. Remaining etc.; he also requests that your highly esteemed honors be pleased to grant him the writing of passes of persons who annually are of the mind to depart from here for the fatherland for such a salary as your honors shall deem appropriate. Remaining (lower stood) Your honors’ obedient servant (was signed) Nicolaes Varlet (dated) the 21st of April 1657, Amsterdam in New Netherland.

[several lines lost] merchants [ ] as possible [ ] that the warehouse is unencumbered upon the arrival [ ships, ] for which, if the merchants be pleased to give something to the petitioner, it will be left to their and his discretion. Done in Amsterdam in New Netherland. Dated as above.

P. Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman