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Noble, Honorable, Esteemed, Wise and very Prudent Lord:

My Lord, after your departure from here I hope that the journey home has been comfortable and speedy and that you found your family in good health. Furthermore, I respectfully request and trust that you will please excuse and construe in the best light the meager reception and sparce entertainment of which, contrary to our desire, we could not provide more, because of our inconvenient situation. We pray that you will please accept our good intentions for the event. When our situation here is more improved, we shall endeavor to satisfy more fully our duty and debt.

A Swede who accompanied you on the journey reported to me that you had been informed of the arrival of a small ship from Curacao. I request that any letters or anything addressed to me be forwarded here as soon as possible so that I may be able to answer them.

If the ship, de Wasbleek, has, as I hope, arrived, the goods on board are to be sent immediately to the various parties here with the galliot or they can be dispatched according to the owner's orders and shipped from there to here. Also, there is a chest on board for me; please take care of any frèight or petty average on it for me. I shall gratefully make compensation...

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...the galliot a last or two of flour may be in stock for the usual payment. Likewise, if you think it advisable to keep a vessel here or elsewhere, then I would desire that a regular rate at the most civil prices be devised for the freight.

Also, please inform the honorable secretary, van Ruyven, that the proclamations and ordinances issued for the direction of this country for the last several years be placed in the hands of the commissary, Rynevelt.

Concerning the cattle: if, as I discussed with you, five or six draught oxen can be bought at reasonable prices, send them here overland or by sea, as you see fit. If the ship de Wasbleek has arrived, it would, after much longing, make us very happy since various parties here expect some goods on board.

If there are any ships there which are departing for the fatherland before the middle of June, please inform me immediately by sea or by an express overland so that I may act accordingly.

I am sending herewith [ blank ] empty barrels for flour, grain or peas, to be used one time or another as required.

[ Pierre Crosson's ] account shall be sent as soon as the commissary^[1] [ has returned hom. ]...

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...to bless your administration and to keep you and your family in continuous health and prosperity. I remain

[ Addressed: ]

Noble, Honorable, Wise and very Prudent Lord. The Honorable Lord Petrus Stuyvesant, Director- General over New Netherland, Curacao, Bonaire, Aruba, etc. Residing in Fort [      ] Amsterdam at Manhattan.

[      ] Jacob Jansz Huys [      ]

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Translation: Gehring, C. trans./ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. 18-19, Delaware Papers: Dutch Period, 1648-1664 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1981).A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.