Document: Order on a petition of the rev. Mr. Polhemus that he be paid 30 guilders in wampum

Domine Polhemius, provisional preacher in the village of Midwout, appearing at the session, requested some monetary assistance, showing at once a note from the honorable general, which read as follows:

Copy. His honor the fiscal will please in my absence favor the bearer of this, Domine Polhemius, in some matters necessary to him, and to accommodate him with some sewant and, among others things, with 5 to 6 pounds of gunpowder. Done at Amsterdam 15 November 1654. P. Stuyvesant.

Being asked several times how he might be accommodated and assisted for this period of time, he answered that he had nothing to request, but that such was at the discretion of the lords councilors. The lords councilors proposed to him that he had already received a quantity of funds, and that still more was to be paid on his account with the merchants. He replied that he could make due for this period of time with f30:0 in sewant. The honorable lords instructed the honorable receiver to accommodate him if it is possible. Done at Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra.[1]