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Petition of Adriaen van der Donck
[1] [ May 26th, 1653 ]
The undersigned, [ Adriaen ] van der Donck, humbly requests consent and passport of the [ Board ] to go to New Netherland, offering to resign the commission previously given him as President of the community, or otherwise as its deputy, and promising upon arrival in New Netherland and taking up residence there, to accept no office whatever it may be, but rather to live in private peacefully and quietly as a common inhabitant, submitting to the orders and commands of the Company or those enacted by its director. Which doing, etc.
[ ENDORSED: ] Petition for Adriaen van der Danek submitted the 26th of May 1653.
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