Document: Petition of Joseph Waldron for an allowance for house rent

[several lines lost] Joseph Waldron Bottelier shows with proper respect how now, in all faithfulness and diligence, he has properly taken care of and looked after the honorable Company’s warehouse and everything relating thereto for over a year, it being much harder now (because of the size of the garrison) than before. And because the petitioner’s predecessors or the previous botteliers enjoyed free house rent from the honorable Company, as most Company’s servants still enjoy, the petitioner respectfully requests that your honors will please to give him something annually for house rent as well. He hopes to henceforth comport himself much to your honors’ satisfaction, expecting a favorable resolution (:lower stood:) your honors’ servant (:was signed:) Joseph Waldron.

The petitioner is granted 50 guilders annually for house rent beginning from the time that he has held the bottelier’s office, provided he comports himself well and diligently as he should. Dated as above.

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