He was to have come hither, but accounts not being settledbetween him and the Colonie, as he has a claim which the partners do not admit, Jan Evertsen came over in his stead. Thomas Hall came to the South river in 1635, in the service of an Englishman named Mr. Homs, who intended at the time to rob us of the South river of New Netherland, including fort Nassouw, and ran away from his master there; arriving at the Manhatans, he hired himself as farm-servant to Jacob van Curler. Becoming a freeman, he made a tobacco plantation on Wouter van Twiller's land ; he has also been overseer {bouwmeesler). Twiller knows the man. Thomas Hall resides, at present, on a little bouwerie belonging to the Company.

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432 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. Elbert Elbertzen, arriving in the country as a farm lad, was about 10 or eleven years in Wouter van Twiiler's service, and has never had any land of his own. About three years ago he married the widow of Gerrit Wolphertsen (brother of the abovementioned Jacob van Couwenhoven), and is, therefore, up to the present time, in the Company's debt, from the payment of which he would apparently like to be relieved. GovERT LoocKERMANS, brother-in-law of Jacob van Couwenhoven, went to New Netherland in 1633, as cook's mate in the yacht Sc. Martyn; was taken by Wouter van Twiller into the Company's service having realized some profit in it, he became a freeman, and finally took ;

charge of the trade of Giliis Verbruggen and company, in New Netherland. This Loockmans ought to show his gratitude to the Company, under God, for his prosperity, and not plot to deprive it of the country. Hendrick Kip is a tailor, and has never suffered any injury in New Netherland to our knowledge.