Document: Order to pay an account due the estate of Peter Cornelissen

[several lines lost] [ ] Jansen Turck, and in addition, [ ] of Pieter Cornelisz Meulemaker [ ] said Turck married [ ] payment of the said account at the sum of ƒ704,– due to the said Pieter Cornelisz from old accounts in the time of lord Willem Kieft; appears in book No. F folio 284, and another ƒ50:8:4, appearing in book No. 7, folio 116.

Having read the request and the accounts having been examined, it is agreed after deliberation that the said items will be reimbursed and paid from the treasury at a convenient time. Dated as above.

P Stuyvesant

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