Document: Confirmation of the appointment of Mattheus de Vos by the director and council

To the highly esteemed lord director general and lords councilors.

Mattheus de Vos shows, with all due reverence, that whereas the petitioner has been granted by the honorable lords burgomasters and schepenen of this city the office of concierge upon approbation of your honors, according to the above written notation; therefore, he, petitioner, [ requests ] that your honors be pleased to assent to the petitioner the aforesaid office of concierge and to approve and confirm the same. Promising and trusting to do good service in the aforesaid office. So doing I remain (written below) your highly esteemed honors’ most obedient subject and servant (was signed) Mattheus de Vos.

The above petition, presented by Mattheus de Vos, having been received and read, was, after deliberation, resolved as follows: director general and councilors of New Netherland confirm and approve the resolution of the schout, burgomaster, and schepenen of this city, dated 6 November last past, on the request of the petitioner (here annexed) granted, provided that he comport himself vigilantly and diligently according to instructions as a good and loyal concierge is expected to do. Done at Fort Amsterdam in N. Netherland, the 7th of December anno 1656.

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