Your Imperial
and Royal Majesty I most humbly have to inform you
what happened with mother and my siblings, who were
transferred from the Empire to here, and until this
day we have been living for each other; but as I can
not be compared to one of my step brothers I am
presenting myself at the Impopulation’s office
representative, who at the moment can not give me
any answers; but since it is no longer possible for
me to live with my step brother, and at the same
time it can not be expected of myself to live with
constant arguing and quarreling, by which actions
our Almighty will be insulted. At the same time I
most humbly beg your Imperial and Royal Majesty
through the Royal Bacs Administration office to
grant me not only a homestead but also a residential
dwelling with stables, farm animals and whatever is
necessary, as I am about to be married. With my
deepest humility to your Roman Imperial and Royal
Apostolic Majesty,
Szekits, July 5th
1786 AD
Your humble,
obedient underling
Joseph Platter,
the new settler and underling of the village of
Szekics in the
K.K. Bacs
Cameral District
Translators
note: (K.K. = Kaiserlich and Koeniglich = Imperial
and Royal; the initials for the Royal Imperial
Austrian Army)
