Document: Order admitting Mr. Willett to trade

Having heard the recommendations, it is resolved to draw up the following resolution to the petition written above,

The petitioner is allowed to trade the goods and merchandise that he brought and still will bring here to his best profit, and to ship to New England the goods that he will receive in return for them, be it peltries or other wares, provided that upon his departure from here he, petitioner, shall report as accurately as possible the quantity of the goods traded here, and which peltries he shipped from here, in order to then civilly agree on the recognition fees of the items mentioned. Thus done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland the 15th of May 1658.

P Stuyvesant Nicasius de Sille Pieter Tonneman J De Deckere

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