Document: Commission from the court at Fort Orange to three of the magistrates to make certain representations to the council

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and the honorable lords [ ] Whereas the magistrates [ ] Fort Orange and the village of [ ] from these places for reasons [ ] three qualified persons from this [ ] to commission Jan Verbeecq, Sander Leendertsen, Frans Barentsz Pastoor in order to request of your honors in written form as well as verbally, which we have ordered them [ ], that we authorize and commission them, Jan Verbeeck, Sander Leendersen and Frans Barentsz, magistrates of this court in order to represent this place and court at your honors’ session, and on our behalf to help promote the general welfare of this place as much as possible, promising to be resolute, firm, and assertive of whatever concerns us, and to acknowledge what they, our aforesaid commissioners, shall have done there according to commission concerning this; to this end we have granted them this letter of credence, requesting that your highly esteemed honors and your honors and everyone who might be shown this to recognize and respect them, for we have deemed such necessary and for the service of this place.

Done in Fort Orange, this 8 June 1655. (Below was written:) We are and remain your honors’ loyal and trusted (was signed:) the magistrates of the inferior bench of justice of Fort Orange and Beverwijck, Jan Tomas- sen, Pieter Hartgerts, Volckert Jansen.