This day, the S"" of December, 1C51, before me, Martin Beeckman, Public Notary, admitted by the Court of Holland and residing at the Hague, and the undernamed witnesses, appeared Jacob Thomassen van Kessel, who, on further request and requisition of Maritjen Ommers, widow of the late Jan Franssen Croon of Hoogvelt, in his lifetime basket maker within the city of Amsterdam, and agreeably to the letter of Elizabeth van Hoogvelt, written at the Manathans, in New Netherland, the abovenamed Requirant, specially mentioned therein, prays, that the deponent should be requested to testify in this matter, as he hath full cognizance thereof, who, on his veracity and conscience, instead of oath, hath certified and declared as he N. B. doth hereby that it is true, that Secretary van Thienhoven having slept at his hoxise a cnnmlerable time u-iih a certain Ehjsahcth ran Hooghvdt, was caught by the respective sherilTs of the Hague; first by Sheriff Paauw and afterwards by Pellenburch, and that when said Thienhoven and the aforesaid Elysabeth van Hooghvelt were ejected from his, deponent's house, had afterwards gone to a grocery here in the Pooten, opposite the Bagyncstraai, at the sign of the Universal Friend ; he, the deponent, giving good reasons for his knowledge of the aforesaid, that he hath heard it all from the mouth of the abovenamed Thienhoven when the latter opened his heart to him, at the time he returned once in a while to sleep at his, deponent's house; he did, also, learn particularly from said Thienhoven's mouth, /Art/ /;e was obliged to pu>j to the abovenamed two Sheriffs, as a Jinc, the sum of eighlij-two Rix dollars, in two several divisions, because he had been caught with the abovenamed Elysabeth van Hooghvelt and that over and above the two divisions of the above fine, he, 'I'hienhoven, had provided some oysters and a drink for the two Sheriffs, Paauw and Pellenburgh, abovenamed he, ;