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Petition from Oysterbay
Honered Syr.
Synce youre last beeinge att Oysterbay, wee have reseued Nether Lyne nor Leter from you, wee dout not but you styll beare in Mynd the proposyshons then mayd, namly, that yould ether make oute the Ryght and Tytele of the place to be youres or give vs vnder youre hand to free vs from Insuing Damage of a Leter sent from gouemor Eyeton whych leter was produced and parvsed by Mytr. Leveryge at youre being there, and since that tyme wee have Reseued noe more it is not oure desyre to Lyue from vnder gouerment if therefore it may In meshure stand wyth your worshypes pleshure to manifest what you Intend Concemyng the playce wee shall wyth awyllinge Redines atend your worshype wyth our ansyuers soe not further to Trubele atpresent wee humbly take our leaues and Reste youre Ever loueinge frendes
From Oysterbay the 23rd of January 1657.
[ ADDRESSED: ] To the Ryght worshypfull Peater Steauensant dyrktor gouemer of the Newnetherlandes these present.
[ ENDORSED: ] Oysterbay to the Gov. Stuyvesant Jan. 1657.
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