Document: Petition of Cornelis van Tienhoven for repayment of advances made by him to the treasury

Director general and lords councilors of New Netherland, residing in Fort Amsterdam.

Cornelis van Tienhoven makes known with all humility that he, having been receiver of the honorable Company’s recognition fees, lent out in this time to the office of the aforesaid Company out of his own effects and those of his wife, coming from inherited goods, and increased since the year 1652, over three thousand guilders on the hope that the same would have been restored to him when your honors might be assisted by the honorable lords superiors from Holland, or when the revenue and income was able to bear the same. Now it is such that their esteemed honors and the honorable lords directors have been pleased to discharge the petitioner from his office, whereby the petitioner addresses himself to your esteemed honors with the reverent request that your honors be pleased to pay the petitioner, as he is now out of office, the money which he has advanced, by assigning it to merchants or, if the opportunity doesn’t present itself to be able to do anything at the present time, that your honors at least be pleased to accommodate me (as a deduction) with an order for one thousand guilders, which money we need to satisfy some creditors; more so, the petitioner seeks to settle his accounts here in this country. I hope that the obstacle regarding the scarcity of treasury will not hinder my urgent request, because the petitioner shall be satisfied [ ] order and shall be able to procure the same and that it will be balanced on credit from the Company in the future. Trusting in your honors discreet and favorable response, I remain (was signed) Cornelis van Tienhoven.