Manathans, in New Netherland, whereby she requests to hear the aforesaid Louisa in this matter, and that she speak by her woman's troth, instead of an oath, at the requisition of Martjen Ommers, widow of Jan Franssen Croon, of Hooghvelt, in his lifetime basket maker, within the city of Amsterdam, that about a year ago, not being certain about the precise date, a certain corpulent and thickset person, of red and bloated visage and light hair, who she afterwards understood was called Van Tienhoven (and who on her frequently asking him for his name, refused to give it), requested her to engage a room for him and a certain young lady or woman, as she, the deponent, was accustomed to do. She, according to such request, first engaged and bespoke a room in the TVageslraat here, wiiich said Thienhoven not liking, he gave her three guilders for her trouble, saying he wished a room in a house with a shop. Whereupon the deponent says, she was again employed to look up another room, and bespoke one in the house of a grocer here in the Pootcn, opposite the Bagynesimat, at the sign of the Universal Friend. She, the deponent, says that for her trouble on this second occasion, she received from Van Thienhoven, three guilders more. She the deponent, further sailh, that before bespeaking the room, she inquired of the aforenamed Thienhoven, what relation he stood in to the abovenamed woman whether she should hire it for a young man or for a married ;