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History of the State of New York, Vol. I (1609-1691)

Brodhead, John Romeyn. History of the State of New York, Vol. I (1609-1691). New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853. 252 words

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, ;

Thienhoven, having repeatedly told him, the deponent, that he, Thienhoven, should have been thus fined, had he kept in his lodgings in his, the deponent's house, which was then the Three Little Doves, and was situate at the Sluice ; he, Thienhoven, having said, that he was sorry for