Was not your Reverence in the room with the late Director General Kieft when the three men, namely, Maryn, Adriaensen, Jan Claessen Daem, and Abram Planck, presented their petition respecting the demand for the war against the Natives ?

2.

Is the conversation between Mr. Kieft and the three men on that occasion still fresh in your Reverence's memory ? 3.

Can he, the witness, conscientiously and solemnly declare before God, verbally or in writing, all that then transpired in the room, between these five persons, respecting the War?

Interrogatories for Jan Claessen Daem and Abram Planck, freemen at the Manhatans.

Article 1.

Did not they, the witnesses, in company with one Maryn Adriaensen, present to Mr. Kieft, in February, 1643, a certain petition respecting the war against our Americans ?

2.

By whose order and by what authority did they do so, and who prompted them thereunto, that they inserted in the petition the words -- Of the whole of the freemen.

HOLLAND DOCUMENTS : III. 201 3.

Was there any other person in the room with Mr. Kieft when they presented the aforesaid petition? 4.

By whom was the petition drawn, or did they request the writer to doit; or was he authorized by any person to that effect ?

5.

Do they, the witnesses, likewise know that the aforesaid petition was copied by another, or did the writer draw it up of himself?

6.

Did they, the witnesses, get an answer from Mr. Kieft on the same day, or was it when Councillor Johan de la Montaigne came from his bouwery to Mr. Kieft?