Document: Message from Anthony Jansen informing the director and council that an armed party from Gravesend had driven off and impounded 24 head of his cattle

In session, present: the lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant, the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille and J. La Montagne.

Anthony Lourens, servant of Anthony Jansz van Salee, appeared at the session and declared to have been sent by his master in order to inform the director general and councilors and give notice that yesterday about 29 persons, inhabitants of Gravesande (which he personally saw [ ] together with two soldiers) being armed with sticks, pikes, and axes, herded all the livestock, both large and small, numbering about 24 that were going to pasture at the point east of the house of Anthony Jansz, to Gravesande, where they are still being held; requests on behalf of his master that order be restored that they return the aforesaid livestock [several lines lost]