[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Before me Cornelis Van Tienhoven, Secretary of New Netherland, appeared Jacob Stoffelsen, aged about 42 years, who at the request of Cornelis Leendersen, deposes and declares as he hereby doth, that it is true that he, the deponent, coming in the forenoon of the day after the attack on the Indians, in company with Gerrit Dircksen and Cornelis Arensen, across the bastion of the fort, this deponent said to Director Kieft : "You have done fine work;" the Director gave for answer, "you must blame the freemen." All which he, the deponent, declares to be fiict and truth; and that he hath done this to give evidence of the truth, for love or hatred of no man, solely because he hath been requested; thereunto the deponent adheres. Done the 27"' March, 1643, in New Netherland, on the Island Manhatans. This Q I ■ is the mark of Jacob Stoffelsen. To my knowledge, Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary. HOLLAND DOCUMENTS: IIL 195 I.