each off your petonrs and other to signe bonds for to pay three pound, to Him or else to be Cast In prison where off one did Refuse w^h -^-as Cast in prison Till he paid s^ sume upon w*"*" news at New Yorke an Order was sent by Major Ingoldesby and Council some Tyme after That The persons W^^ signed bonds There should be Discharged Thereoff vpon w"^ The afores^ sherrife promised -To Restore s'^ sumes off raony to your Peticon^ which as yet he has not fullfilled --

Thereffore your Ex^iy' Peticoners Humble Crave that your Exi'y will be pleased To order s^ Money to be Restored To Them

And your Peticoners do further Enforme your Ex^'y That by and order off Council of New Yorke sent To Richmond that j one line destroyed] and be valued but The assessors and

severall others There having negers doo not pay any Tax for Them so That a poore Inhabitant That has no negers must pay as much accordingly like Them that Has many negers Therefore your petitioners humble crave That your Ex^y will be pleased To signify Them iff s^ negers should be Excluded ffor paying Tax --

and your peticoners shall ever Pray Gerard Veghten Jan Teunisson Vanpeltt John Pieterson ^H. ?.ulnHr:'i^ Endorsed rov.M.'l

The Petition of John Theunisson John Peterson & Gerard Veighton

read in Council [.Hviivn)

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LIEUT. GOV. LEISLER. 417

To his Excellency Coll: Benjamine Ffletcher Cap^^ Generall and Governor of the province of New Yorke &c. The Humble Peticon of Peter Delanoy Sheweth