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I, the undersigned Johan Risingh, hereby certify and declare to have received, agreeable to the capitulation, from the director general of New Netherland, Petrus Stuyvesant, two letters of exchange, one upon Thi- moteus de Cruso, merchant at London, to the amount of one thousand guilders, the other upon Cornelis Jacobsen Steenwijck for the sum of eight hundred guilders, together an amount of three hundred pounds Flemish, which having been duly paid, I hereby promise to return and repay the aforesaid sum of three hundred pounds Flemish within six months after receipt, according to the capitulation, to the aforesaid lord Petrus Stuyvesant or his order, to wit, Abraham de Decker, receiver and bookkeeper of the commissaries for the affairs of New Netherland at Amsterdam, pledging for this purpose, according to the capitulation, die property of the Swedish Crown and the South Company left in the hands of the aforesaid lord Petrus Stuyvesant against receipt empowering the aforesaid lord Petrus Stuyvesant to sell, in case of non-payment, as much of the property of the Illustrious Crown of Sweden and the South Company as the aforesaid sum with damages and loss shall amount to in good Dutch money here. Hereof two copies, binding for one, have been made in the presence of the following witnesses, the first being paid, the second to be of no value.

Done at New Amsterdam in New Netherland, ady ut supra. (Was signed:) Johan Risinge, Hendrick van Elswijck, as witness J. de Deckere.

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Translation: Gehring, C., trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 6, Council Minutes, 1655-1656 (Syracuse: 1995). A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.