Document: Letter from gov. Endecott and the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England to the director and council

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] an inhabitant or free-

] Manhatoes presenting the

] with severitie @ in a manner

] unknowne to the burgers there as theij saij

] theij supposing our interest of neighbourly correspondence improved after a friendlij manner of mediation with your Honn: might be of some use for their release have requested this our lettre on their behalfe and so far as innocentie maij appeare on their petes theij have pevailed

with us to write, theij relate the matter to be

the seising of a prcell of their bever in the hands of their agent John Laurence for that it was removed from one burgers house in the Manhatoes to another being some very small distance without the lijne set for confiscation of beaver to prevent the defrauding of custome or recognition upon witch account their

said beaver being detained for a fine ijow where pleas[ed to Levij upon their said agent to the value 25 lb: theij pretend to be much damnified and doe request ijour

iust favour for its release ands alsoo that their friend

and agent being an Englishman may not suffer for onelij the missing an exact attendance to some circumstance or prticle [ ? ] in your law, Whereas theij had honestlij taken order with Mr. Stenwijck one of ijour owne magistrates obliging him to paij the custome the trueth is Sr: We neather know ijour lawes nor the equitable grounds upon which theij are made nor desire to intermeddle with ijour executions of the[m? but to request that with favour to the inno[cent

acts and intentions of honest Englishmen ijow would please to review and consider whither the [ cariage off ijour fiscael in this businis maij not be [ mixed with more regidnes toward English men [ [several lines lost]

Rema[ Boston the 15 of September 1658

Was supscrijbed Joh: Endecott presdnt Simon Bradstreate Tho: Prence

Jos: Winslew John Winthrop John Talbutt Francis Newman William Leete

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