Document: Order in the case of Jacob Wolphertsen van Couwenhoven's minor children by his first wife

[several lines lost] containing that [ ] still able to deduce the [ ] aforesaid Jacob Wolphersz satisfied [ ] shall be able to attain [ ] the maternal estate for the children [ ] above the five thousand guilders as the testament involves; therefore, the director general, councilors, and added parties, with the approbation and approval of the blood guardians, curators, and orphan masters, have, upon the petitioner’s request, provisionally released him from his surplus—as he himself declares, was made by mistake and all too high estimates of his effects above the left behind testament assigned to the children—provided that the petitioner immediately and with regard to this, to the satisfaction of the blood guardians and added curators, will have to make an effective assignment of satisfaction or give sufficient security for the children’s material estate for the sum of five thousand guilders according to the testament, save that the petitioner, according to the promise, within the period of three months, makes up a statement and a reliable account and shows the guardians the chattel, effects, debts to be paid and those to be claimed [several lines lost] something more may happen to the [ maternal ] estate; and in the event that the petitioner should remain lacking at the expiration of the aforesaid three months to disclose to the aforesaid guardians his statement and reliable account, they shall have leave to proceed with the execution of the petitioner’s goods and effects. Done at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 27th of March anno 1657.

P. Stuyvesant

N. de Sille