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Summons for Middelburgh magistrates to appear before Council
Ao. 1657, 15 January. Answer to the foregoing writing.
Whereas Wee ware informed that the house off the Minister (being bild for a publicq use and successively for the Ministerij) by som off the inhabitance off the Towne of Middleborch was disposed off, and given, unto Meester More, for his private use, it beeingh soo, as wee doe not hope, or thinke, then this are to require the Magistraats off the said Towne, to make their appijrance before us, for to give information and reasons, uppon wath Grounds, and Wherefore it was done alsoo; In the mayntyme the Magistraats are required and ordered to proceed no farther against the bearer John Layton. Soe after mee Love, I rest,
Your friend and Gouvernor
Fort Amsterdam, in N. Nederlant.
[ ADDRESSED: ] Middelborch
[ ENDORSED: ] From Newtowne to Go. Stuyvesant January 22, 1657.
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