Document: Summons to the sheriff of Gravesend to show cause why he seized the trunk of Peter Jansen

high council held in New Amsterdam, [ 9 November ] 1654, in New Netherland; was signed: P. Stuyvesant; below was written: By order of the director general and high council; signed: Cornelis van Ruyven, secretary.

Copy. Director-General Petrus Stuyvesant and the high council of New Netherland, having summoned here the court-messenger, Claes van Elslandt, give greetings. Whereas Pieter Jansz has complained that in his absence the schout of Gravesande removed a trunk and a gun from his house, as a result of a certain debt, without even his adversary settling with him or bringing the aforesaid director-general and council, being ignorant of the truth, hereby order you, the court-messenger, to summon the aforesaid schout and other parties disposed against him, to appear at the next court session, being Tuesday the 17th of this month, to explain the seizure of the aforesaid goods; in the meantime, [ ] neither against him nor against the aforesaid