[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Which doing, etc.. Signed Joost Teuniss. Baker. Read IS"-December, 1649. NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Appendix to the preadiiig Petition. To the Hon"'' Petrus Stuyvesant, Director of New Netherland, Curagao and dependencies thereof, and to the gentlemen of the Council. Joost Teunissen, baker, represents with all due respect to your honors, and humbly prays the Hon"'' General and Council to be pleased to discharge him from the suit formerly instituted against him, and herein to release the bail, which falls very onerous on him; or in case the Fiscal is still inclined to maintain his pretension, the petitioner had wished, nay hoped, the case might have been long ago disposed of, and meanwhile, as prayed for in the last petition, he again requests that his case may be terminated and the bail discharged, so that he, the petitioner, may pursue his voyage to Patria unhindered, for which he humbly solicits your Honors' permission to depart in person in the Valckeiiier, as he otherwise, by being prevented, would suffer great loss. Awaiting hereunto a favorable answer, Remains your Honors' humble and obedient. In the margin was: — Copy of the answer given to Joost Teuniss, baker, on 26 July, 1649. These are to be communicated to the Fiscal, in order to prosecute the case. Ady 26"> July, 1649. New Amsterdam in N. Netherland.