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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 286 (part 4)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Wherefore the Petitioner wholly disheartened and cast down, as Delegate of the Commonalty of New Netherland and also as a native freeman of this country, whose mother's father by the capture of the city of Breda with the turf-boat, whereof he was exporter and part owner, participated in the acquired freedom, addresses himself to your High Mightinesses, and most respectfully prays that your High Mightinesses may be pleased again to approve the Petitioner's commission and the legality of his constituents, as heretofore by your High Mightinesses' order of the II"' April, 1G50, hereunto annexed, and to grant certificate of the same, or to revoke or annul it. 478 NEW-YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Secondly.