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Letter from Thomas Newman to Petrus Stuyvesant
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Honred Sir,
Wee humbly Desir and request that you wold be plesed to send vs a Court Booke and those 12 Mvskets which you spak of with the rest of the ammounishon for the use and safgard of ovr plantation with the orders and Laws which we are to walk by that wee may know how to act.
Thomas Newman
From Este towne the 1 of Jenuary 1656.[1]
Notes
Note that this an old style date; according to the Gregorian calendar adopted by the province of Holland in 1568 it should read 1657.
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