Document: Order to sheriff Tonneman to attach the lands and crops of certain farmers in Amesfoort

The director general and councilors of New Netherland having [ ] the report of the commissioners authorized and qualified for the collection of the tenths and finding that some of the inhabitants of the village of Amesfoort located on Long Island have displayed much disobedience against them with threats, among others, Elbert Elbertsz, Joris Jacobsz and, Hendrick Pietersz, the schout of the aforesaid village. Pieter Tonneman, is hereby ordered to seize the lands and all the crops standing in the fields and belonging to the above-mentioned resisters, and to summon them immediately to appear before the director general and councilors on this coming Thursday, the 13th of this month, in order to be able to hear and answer, if they are able, such claims and conclusions which the fiscal, nomine officii, shall bring against them. Dated as above (was signed) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille and La Montagne.

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