Document: Report on the repairs done to the company's house by surgeon Varrevanger

[ ] 1656 the 22d of February [ ] written by order of the lord director general dated 15 February, last past, [ ] at the house of the surgeon Jacob Varrevanger, residing in the honorable Company’s house, in order to inspect the improvements that the surgeon had made at his own expense to the aforesaid house, we find that the aforesaid Jacob Hendricksz Varrevanger has had built a proper, small kitchen walled with brick, the entire house newly floored, the hearth laid up with brick, furnished with drainage ditches, doors, window frames, window lights, and panes of glass, in addition to closing things up with planks, for which various accounts have been provided, and we have found that they are in agreement. Whereupon we as commissioners report that no one here in this country could have had so much done for f455:4:- as the surgeon has claimed. Thus reported at the session of the honorable lord director general and lords councilors of New Netherland held at Fort Amsterdam, ady ut supra. (Was signed:) Nicasius de Sille, Cor. van Tienhoven.

The lord director general and councilors of New Netherland having seen and heard the report of the commissioners who were empowered to inspect and evaluate the repairs made by the surgeon Jacob Varrevanger in and on the Company’s house in which he lives, we order the commissary Carel van Bruggen to credit the aforesaid Jacob Hendricx Varrevanger’s monthly salary for the sum of four hundred fifty-five guilders, four stivers [ ]

[ ] session held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra. (Was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, La Montagne.