Seven or eight of the Company's soldiers have come hither with Adriaen van Tienhoven. The remainder, with Commandant Bicker and almost all the freemen, have remained there, and taken the oath of fidelity to the new Swedish Governor. The fuller details of this scandalous surrender of the abovementioned fort, and the truth thereof, your Honors can deduce from the annexed copies of depositions and unsigned letter of the abovenamed Bicker in answer to mine, which we have received overland, etc.

Depositions. Before me, Cornelia van Ruyven, admitted Secretary in the service of the "West India Company, in New Netherland, appeared Adriaen van Tienhoven, aged 36 years, a native of Breuckelen, late Clerk of the Court of Justice in the South river, who at the requisition of Cornells van Tienhoven, Fiscal, in presence of and before the Hon"' Nicasius de Sille, first Councillor of New Netherland, testities and declares, in place and on promise of a solemn oath, if necessary, that it is true and truthful that by him, the deponent, and other inhabitants as well belonging to Fort Casimier as freemen thereabout, was seen on the evening of Saturday, being the 30"" May, a ship, without knowing whether it \vas Dutch or English, or of other nation. Whereupon Commandant Gerrit Bicker hoisted the Prince's flag on said fort and commanded this deponent accompanied by four freemen, namely, Egbert Gerritse, Cornells Teunisse, Cornells Mauritz and Peter Harmans to proceed to the ship aforesaid, in order to ascertain whence she came. And on Sunday forenoon, about S o'clock, he, the deponent, with the four freemen, returned ashore, reporting that she was a Swedish ship, having on board a new Governor of the Swedes, and many other people; also, that the Swedes intended to surprize and capture said Fort Casimier for the Crown of Sweden.