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debts, who are hereby also recommended to afford as much satisfaction as possible to the Petitioner for the account of his principals, in common with the other creditors.

On petition presented by Mr. Cornelis van Ruyven, on behalf of the Widow of decd Dome Johannis Megapolensis and of Dome Samuel Megapolensis, requesting that what still is due them for earned salary both from the West India Company, from this city and the Town of Bergen, may be ordered to be handed and paid him, &c.,

Ordered by the Governor-General of New Netherland:

As regards the claim against the estate of the West India Company, the Petitioner is referred to the Commissioners appointed on the 21st instant for the settlement of its books and payment of its debts; regarding the debt of the city and of the Town of Bergen, it is already recommended to the respective Courts, in order that some means may be found, if possible, to pay the same.

Anthony Colve, for their High Mightinesses the States-General of the United Netherlands and his Serene Highness the Prince of Orange, &c.

To all those who shall see these presents or hear them read, Greeting, makes known:

That I, for sufficient reasons me thereunto moving, have, on the petition presented by some of the good inhabitants of this Province, consented to release and discharge all arrested goods and effects here being and belonging to the inhabitants of New England, Virginy and Maryland, as I do hereby release, discharge and set free said goods from such arrest or any confiscation, with this reserve and express stipulation however, that the governments of New England, Virginy and Maryland aforesaid, shall reciprocally and in like manner release and discharge the goods and effects of any inhabitants of this Province seized or arrested by said governments during the progress of the war. Done Fort Willem Hendrick, in New Netherland, this 28th June, 1674.

John Berry being already allowed to appeal from the judgment pronounced between him and William Sandfort, in case of injury by the Court of the Town of Bergen, dated 11th 9ber last, a mandamus is accordingly this day granted him.

29th June.

Mr. Cornelis Steenwyck being admitted on the 21" instant to appeal from the judgment pronounced by the Court of this city N. Orange on the 9th instant, between him and Mr. Jacob Varrevanger, a mandamus is accordingly this day granted him.

Cornelis van Borsim being admitted on the 21st instant to appeal from the judgment pronounced by the Court of this city on the 16th instant, between him and Jacob Teunissen Kay, a mandamus is accordingly this day granted him.

Whereas, by the Articles and Proclamations of Peace between the Crown of England and their High Mightinesses the States-General of the United Netherlands, published on the 6th of March last at The Hague, it is found that the sloop named the Egmond and Mathew, Richard Pattesal, skipper, captured by Capt" Cornelis Ewoutse, with his snow called the Zeehont, on 3d May last, on the coast of New England, must, agreeably to said Treaty of Peace, be restored to the owners; therefore Capt" Cornelis Ewoutse is hereby ordered and commanded

said sloop and all its cargo to restore and deliver up to said skipper Richard Patthesal, in such condition as they were taken by said Capt" Ewoutse, on the date aforesaid. Done Fort Willem Hendrick, this 4th July, 1674.

Like order is issued for the behoof of Samuel Woodbury, skipper of the sloop Swan, and William Lewis, skipper of the ketch named the Prosperous.

At a Court held in Fort Willem Hendrick, on the 5th of July, 1674.

PRESENT

Governor Anthony Colve,

Councillor Cornelis.Steenwyck, and

Secretary Nicolaes Bayard, as assumed Councillor.

THIMOTHEUS GABRIE, Puff,

against

JAN JANSEN Veryn, Deft.

Deft. remaining for the third time in default and presenting an apologetic petition, it is ordered that in case Deft. shall neglect taking up at the Secretary's office copies of the papers and answer finally on the next Court day, he shall be pronounced contumacious.

RICHARD SMITH, Puff., in appeal,

against

JOSEPH SMITH, Deft.

Pltff. alleges that Deft. hath taken a false oath, making two different affidavits in the case of the land in dispute between the appellant and the Town of Huntington; first, declaring that he paid for the land in question, and afterwards saying that he only meant the valley and grass; therefore requests that the judgment of the deputed Councillors, dated last, pronounced at Jamaico, may be annulled and Deft. be declared a perjurer and condemned in the costs.

Deft. appearing by his Attorney, Mr. Waters, persists in his declaration made before the deputed Council, and requests that Pltff. shall be condemned to pay Deft. all costs and damages for this illegal persecution.

The Governor-General and Council of New Netherland having heard parties and examined the produced declarations of the Deft., and other papers and documents pertinent to the case, find said judgment of deputed Councillors to be valid and legal, it is hereby approved, and the appellant condemned in the costs incurred herein.

CORNELIS VAN BORSIM, Puff., in appeal,

against

JACOB TEUNISSEN KAY, Deft.

The Appellant rendering his complaint in writing, represents that 'twas not he but the Deft. who was the first author and instigator of the quarrel between them, and that his first witnesses are still ready to confirm, on oath, their original declarations; therefore maintaining that, for this and other reasons more fully inserted in his petition of appeal, the judgment of the Court of this city, dated the 16th of June last, ought to be annulled, and the conclusion adopted by the Appellant in his action be adjudged in his favor.

Deft. denies having been the author of the quarrel; requests that the produced declarations be examined and investigated, and persists further in his demand and conclusion taken in the first instance, &c.

The Governor-General and Council of New Netherland having seen and read the documents, papers and exhibits produced by parties, and the witnesses on both sides being summoned to Court and again examined, and further having observed, weighed and pondered over whatever was material, decide that both parties are to blame; therefore, the judgment pronounced by the Court of this city, in the case aforesaid, is hereby annulled, and administering justice de novo, in form as it ought to have been done in the first instance, condemn both parties, each in a fine of twenty-five guilders, in Beavers, to be applied, one half for the Schout and the other half for the Church; with equal share of the costs incurred herein.

7th July, 1674.

Read and considered the petition of William Meaker and Thomas Thompson, residents of Elizabethtown, at Aghter Coll, complaining that Samuel Moor did, contrary to the order of the deputed Councillors of Aghter Coll, refuse to deliver up the bail bond executed by the Petitioners on 26th June, 1673, to Capt John Berry, then Deputy Governor, to appear before the next Bench and there to answer the complaint of Thomas Pardon, &c., requesting, further, that said Moor may be commanded to comply with the order of the deputed Councillors, by delivering up said bond,

Ordered:

The Governor-General and Council having seen that Samuel Moor doth, as it appears, in disparagement of the orders of the deputed Councillors, neglect to deliver up the bail bond of the Petitioners' to Secretary Samuel Hopkins, Mr. John Ogden, the Schout, is hereby instructed and commanded to put in immediate execution the said order of the deputed Councillors against said Samuel Moor, and demand said bail bond, or, in case of further refusal, to apprehend said Moor and send him a prisoner hither.

On the petition of Daniel Dantom and John Gilman, agents for the Town of Piscatteque, complaining of the dilatory exceptions made by Samuel Moor and Pike, respecting the retention of the Petitioners' valleys, request to be maintained in their good right, &c., Ordered:

The Petitioners may cite their parties herein before Mess" John Lawrence, Richard Betts and James Hubbert, and the Court of deputed Councillors appointed by previous commission to hear and determine the matter in question between the Town of Woodbridge and Piscatteque. Therefore are the Petitioners again referred to said Court, which is hereby recommended, upon due examination of affairs, to cause quick right and justice to be administered to parties.

On petition of Richard Smith, complaining that notwithstanding the Governor's order on Petitioner's request, granted 26th June last, and the subsequent order of Schout William Lawrence, the Marshal of the Town of Hemstede, Richard Valentyn by name, to put in execution the judgment of the deputed Council against Jeremy Wood, asking, “Is it in the name of the King of England, for I will do nothing in the name of the Prince or of the States of Holland," &c.,

Ordered:

Schout William Lawrence is again ordered and commanded to see, without further delay, that said judgment of the deputed Councillors against Jeremy Wood be put in execution, and, in addition, strictly to examine whether the Marshal did utter the seditious words, or words like those herein stated, in which case said Schout is ordered to arrest said Marshal forthwith and send him hither properly secured.

Mr. CORNELIS STEENWYCK, a Pliff., in appeal,

against

JACOB HENDRICKse Varrevanger, Deft.

Deft.'s wife delivering in the papers in the case, is ordered to inventory them; and parties on both sides, if they wish so to do, are to be allowed to take copies of papers in order to answer thereunto at the next Court day.

Captain JOHN BERRY, Puff., in appeal,
against

WM. SANDFORT and Schout CLAES ARENTSEN, conjoined Defts.

Pltff. complains that Defts. have instituted an action against him, before the Court at Bergen, for carrying off some hogs which he claims to be his own property, and have thereon obtained judgment, as if he had obtained those hogs in a scandalous manner, by stealing; requesting, for reasons more fully set forth in his petition and application for appeal, that judgment of said Court, pronounced 11th 9ber last, be annulled, and the Pliff. relieved from this scandalous action, &c.

Schout Claes Arentsen appearing, answers and requests that Deft. [in the Court below,] be ordered to prove that they were his hogs; says further, that the Court aforesaid have not condemned the Pltff. of theft, but of inconsiderate removal of the hogs, without the consent of any officer, &c.

Appellant acknowledges having rashly removed said hogs without consent, thinking they were his own, requests therefore to be excused, &c.

Governor-General and Council having heard parties, and examined and investigated the papers and documents produced on both sides, declare the Appellant in the case, not guilty of the suspicion of theft, yet finding that he hath gone too far in the inconsiderate removal of the hogs, without having previously obtained consent to that effect, and modifying the judgment of the abovenamed Court, condemn the Appellant herein in a fine of one hundred guilders light money, with restitution of the removed hogs, on valuation of arbitrators, unless he will within 6 m. be able to prove that they were his own hogs, and pay the costs herein incurred.

On the petition of Joost van der Linde, and Hendrick Spiers, each is allowed a piece of land for a bouwerie, each piece 25 morgens, beginning opposite Schutter's Island, and further westerly along the Kill van Koll.

Symon Jacobse complaining, by petition, that he is grossly calumniated by the false accusation of Dirck Gerretse, as if the Petitioner had committed a very shameful and scandalous action, requesting justice in the case against the accused, &c.

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- Ordered:

The Magistrates of the town of Bergen, are ordered legally and publicly to summon Dirck Gerritse within 14 days, and to proceed against him according to law, on Petitioner's complaint or else to put their previous judgment against him into execution.

The Governor and Council of New Netherland, having seen the complaint of the town of Bergen against the inhabitants of the villages of Pemrepogh, Mingagquy, &c., and the answer given by them, in regard to what the inhabitants of Pemrepogh and Mingagquy aforesaid, owe for the support of the Schoolmaster, and precentor of the town of Bergen, it is after due inquiry resolved and ordered, that the inhabitants of Pemrepogh and Mingaghquy, shall promptly pay their share for the support aforesaid, on pain of proceeding against them with immediate execution.

Abigail Messenger, the deserted wife of Richard Darlin, requesting by petition an act of divorce and separation from her said husband, with permission to remarry, on account that her husband, according to his own acknowledgment, hath broken the marriage ties by committing adultery, and thereupon has absconded, &c.,

Ordered:

Petition is for cause postponed for six months, within which time Petitioner's husband is ordered to come and purge himself of said charge, or in default, the Petitioner will then be at liberty to prosecute her suit.

On petition of the Consistory (Kerckenraat) of the Dutch Reformed Christian Religion in New Orange with the Church-wardens (Kerckmeesters) of that city, requesting in substance confirmation to them of the Church standing in Fort Willem Hendrick, which it was agreed on the surrender of this Province in the year 1664, should with other public buildings continue to be employed for the same purpose as they then were used; as more fully appears by the 2nd article of the Capitulation,

Ordered:

Fiat confirmatio, and a deed in form shall be granted to the Petitioners in the premises.

Folio 27.

ing New Netherland.

Resolution of the States-General.

[From the Register of Resolutions of the States-General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Saturday, 7th July, 1674.

Received a letter from the Board of Admiralty, at Amsterdam, written there the fifth instant, to the effect that Captain Tol's ship was finally ready to convey to New Netherland, agreeably to their High Mightinesses' resolution of the sixteenth of April last, the Orders for evacuat orders for the evacuation of the forts, and the restitution of that country to the order of the King of Great Britain, requesting for reasons alleged, that such further orders to Captain Anthony Colve, Governor in New Netherland, as their High Mightinesses shall find for the public interest, may be communicated through Captain Toll, who is about to come before Scheveling to convey their High Mightinesses Commissioners to England; which, being considered, it is resolved and concluded, that Captain Anthony Colve, Governor of New

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