Document: Petition of Jacob Hendricksen Varrevanger for indemnity for property

Received the petition of Mr. Jacob Hendricksen Varrevanger, in his lifetime commander of the militie on the island of Curaçao in the service of the Chartered West India Company, appointed guardian of the two minor children of Jacob Looper, fathered in wedlock with Cornelia Melijns, mainly showing that the burgomasters of this city in the aforesaid capacity took by seizure a house and lot standing and located at the corner of the new canal, allegedly because the city needed it for the completion of the new canal, which house and lot the aforesaid Cornelia Melijns [ intended to give ] to the said children as their patrimonial estate [several lines lost] the petitioner some [ ] which, besides [ ] he considers too little on account of reasons stated [ at length ] in the aforesaid petition. He requests hereby that some persons may be authorized and ordered to estimate the demolished house and the condition of the lot.