RegisterofPSVol2

Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642 – 1647 ׀ 277
Amsterdam the sum of seven hundred and forty-seven guilders, two stivers, 12 pennies, due him,
Jan Stevensz, by balance and remainder of his account according to the Book of Monthly Wages No.
F, folio 34, earned in the service of their honors in New Netherland. On payment in full of said sum
by the honorable directors above mentioned to Luycas Smith, or his order, he is empowered to
execute a receipt therefor, which shall be valid, he, the principal, holding further as valid whatever
shall be done and transacted by the attorney or his substitute, who is to do herein as he, the
principal, were he present, could or might do. The original hereof in the record is signed by Jan
Stevensz in the presence of Jacob Kip, witness hereto invited, the 20th of July anno 1647, in Fort
Amsterdam, New Netherland.
Jacob H. Kip, witness
Cornelis Jansz, witness
Acknowledged before me,
Jan Stevensz
Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary
[Declaration of John Dolling and others of a visit at the tavern
in company of Fiscal van Dyck]
[159f] Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Mr. Jan
Dollingh, aged thirty-two years, who at the request of the Hon. Director General Petrus
Stuyvesant attests, testifies and declares, in place and with promise of an oath if necessary, that it
is true and truthful that he, the deponent, about eleven o’clock yesterday night, between the 21st
and 22nd of July, was taking a stroll with master Willem, 338 Jacob, the steward, and Hendrick
Eldersz, commissary, through the village of New Amsterdam, where they met Hendrick van Dyc,
fiscal, who asked them whence they came. They answered, they were taking a walk. Fiscal van
Dyck thereupon said: “I know that you come from the tavern. Come with me, we shall go in there
again.” And finally he, the fiscal, knocked at the door of Gerrit, the miller, who would not open. A
man named Mattys Cappata opened the door. On entering the aforesaid fiscal called for wine and
a gill of brandy was tapped. Having taken a drink he went away, saying: “Be merry together; I
shall presently join you again.” Mr. Willem and Dollingh above mentioned remaining there, the
338 Surgeon Willem Hays.
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