[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] and their Commission, and will obey their Comma7ids, and send an Agent to maintain the Judgment, as it was ivell and legally pronounced. I demanded to have the answer in writing, but the (leneral said. Whenever you deliver me an authentic copy of the Mandamus, I will give it to you. I then requested Secretary Tienhoven, there present, whose duty it was, to be pleased to do so and to authenticate it, but he refused to do so, saying, You may do it yourself, which I afterwards did, and should have placed it in the General's hands next day, but a rumor prevailed that the Indians had killed a Dutchman, and Melyn aforesaid had gone to Staten Island; so I brought his Honor the copy of the Mandamus first on the 15"" ditto, accompanied by Augustyn Heerman and Jacob van Couwenhoven, and then requested his Honor's answer in writing, but he refused it, saying. Their High Mightinesses' award I shall regard. Thus done and transacted on the day and date aforesaid, at the Manhattans in New Netherland. (Signed) Arnoldus van Hardenbergh. Augustyn Heerman, Witness. Jacob van Couwenhoven, Witness.