Document: Call for volunteers for the expedition against the Swedes

[ Thursday, the 19th of August ] [1]

[ If some lovers of the flourishing, well-being and ] safety [ of this newly opened ] province of New Netherland are willing and inclined to serve the director general and council either for love or for a reasonable salary and board money, they will please to address and announce themselves to his honor, the noble director general himself or to one of the honorable gentlemen of the council and inform them. The director general and council promise hereby that if any one (which God may prevent) should happen in attack or defense to loose a limb or to be maimed, the same shall receive for it proper compensation pursuant to the general order and articles of the chartered West India Company. Ady ut supra.

(It was signed:)

P. StuyvesantNicasius de SilleCornelis van Tienhoven19 August 1655