Document: Report of Johan de Deckere on the court of Renselaerswyck refusing to publish the placard concerning the tenths

Pursuant to the order and instructions of the lords director general and councilors of New Netherland, dated 28 June 1656, requesting that the lord Renselaer and those of the colony’s court publish the placard concerning the tenths, I, Johan de Deckere, opper commies at Fort Orange, have given notice and requested, together with the subscribed witnesses at the session and those on the board of the aforesaid court and on behalf of those aforementioned, that they should be pleased to publish the aforesaid placard, just as we have in theirs, to which the lord Renselaer replied: “We are not obliged to do so and do not intend to do so.” Thus done, made known, and response received on the 16th of July of the aforesaid year, in the presence of Rutger Jacobsz and Dirck Jansz Croon as witnesses requested hereto. Agrees with the minutes acknowledged by me (was signed) J. de Deckere, as witnesses: Dirck Jansz Croon, Rutger Jacobsz.[i]