[ From the Register of West India Affairs, 1653 -- 1663, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Thursday, lO"- April, 1653. folio 69. The petition of Mr. Hendrick van der Capelle tot Ryssel, ordinary Delegate to Mr. HeniirickTaQ ^'8^ Mightinesses' Assembly, beingread, complaining of a certain judgment *'^^"' de Capelle. pronounccd in New Netherland to his prejudice, who prays on the contrary for writ of appeal, with inhibitory and defensive clause and relief against the indebite interjection,

528 NEW- YORK COLONIAL MANUSCRIPTS. the issue and prosecution of aforesaid appeal, together with injunction directed against Director Stuyvesant, Wilet his attorney and all others who will make themselves party herein, all in due form : Whereupon deliberation being had, it is hereby resolved and concluded, to grant the aforesaid request and accordingly the required writ shall be dispatched. The Deputies from the province of Zealand have hereupon given notice that they have no order to consent to the grant of writ of appeal from judgments pronounced in the West Indies or within the West India Company's district.

Wni of Apiyeal in favor of Mr. van der Capelle. [ From the Acte-Boek of the States General, in the Royal Archives at the Hague. ]

Writ of Appeal sued out by Mr. Henrick van der Capelle tho Ryssel against Director Stuyvesant cum suis, with clause of injunction.

Folio 31. The Slates General of the United Netherlands. To the High Constable or Marshal impowered to serve ; also to the Notary or such other person whether public or private, as shall be hereunto required, Greeting: Be it Known: That we have received the petition of Jonckheer Henrick van der Capellen tho Ryssel, Lord of Esselt and Hasseltand ordinary deputy in our Assembly from the principality Gebre and County of Zutphen, setting forth in substance, that he had, in the year XVl'^ fifty, with God's help, and pursuant to the charter and amplification thereof granted to the stockholders of the West India Company, undertaken to settle a Colonic on Staten Island, in New Netherland that he had thereunto, ;