Document: Petition of Daniel Wittheat and Jonas Wood of Hempstead

[ First several lines are lost. ] [ ] not to write [ ] of the village [ ] that it was found on the [ ] when Mr. Gildersleef was nominated [ ] to be satisfied [ ]

[ ] meeting [ ] the honorable director-general [ ] asking what he desired. [ ] that he was detained here and [ ] [ ] understood to be a reply [ ] the order and judgment by the [ ] he gives courage to reply [ ] nor to have been unwilling [ ] to obey the order of the honorable director.

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