Document: Petition of David Provoost, clerk to the courts of Breuckelen, Midwout and Amesfoort, for some allowance for his trouble

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New York State Archives

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NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0037c

Description

Petition. David Provoost, clerk to the courts of Breuckelen, Midwout and Amesfoort, for some allowance for his trouble.

Document Date

1655-05-05

Document Date (Date Type)

1655-05-05

Document Type

Petition

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Petition

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Translation

To the honorable and highly esteemed lords councilors in New Netherland.

Humbly makes known David Provoost, provisionally appointed by the honorable lord director general and councilors in New Netherland as secretary or clerk of the courts of Breuckelen, Midwout, and Amesfoort, that he, petitioner, has taken care of the same position for more than a year to the best of his ability without any salary; therefore, he requests that he may receive a portion of his salary for his work, which their honors have been pleased to allow for the delivery of documents and judgments of [ ] and Secretary Kip, for which there is no doubt

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(Below was written:) Your honors’ servant and was signed: David Provoost. (In the margin was written: New Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra. 5 May 1655.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V06_0037c.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.