Document: Petition of Nicolas Bayardt for an increase of salary

To the honorable lords director general and the lords high councilors of N: Netherland

Nicolaes Baijard shows with due respect how he, petitioner, has been writing and copying in English now for a considerable time at the office of the honorable Company with its honorable secretary Cornelis van Ruijven without receiving any wages or salary for it.

[several lines lost] Bayardt [ ]

The 7th of January 1658 [ ]

The above petition having been [ received, it ] is resolved as follows: The petitioner shall be given six guilders per month, beginning after the first of January, provided that he comport himself vigilantly and diligently, as is appropriate. Done in Amsterdam in N: Netherland, anno 1658 (was signed) Petrus Stuyvesant

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