[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] 359 All truly done at Amsterdam, in the presence of Hannen Harmensen Cruyer and Cryn Cornelissen, mason, witnesses, who have likewise signed, with the aforesaid deponent, the original minute hereof remaining with me notary, Quod attestor (Signed) C. Tou Notar. Publ. (Endorsed) Declaration of William Hendricksen for Cornells Melyn, in opposition to the denial of William Kieft, that the deponent distilled brandy for C. Melyn and Kieft in Company. All these aforesaid acts and declarations have I, the undersigned Notary, found, after comparison to agree with their originals; at the Hague the 5"" February A°. 1650. Me teste. (Signed) M. Beeckman, Notar Publ. Resolution of the States General, referring the preceding papers. [ From the Kegiater of Weal India Affairs, 1633—1651, in the Enyal Archives at the Hague. ] Tuesday, S"' February, 1650. Folio B29. The petition of Cornelis Melyn, patroon on Staten Island in New Netherland, Cornelia Melyn. is after previous deliberation placed, with the pieces thereunto annexed, in the hands of Mess" van Aertsbergen and other their High Mightinesses' Deputies for the West India Company's affairs, in order to inspect and examine them, and to hear again and again the petitioner and Secretary Cornelis van Tienhoven actually here at the Hague, and to render a report of the whole to their High Mightinesses. Secretary van Tienhoven''s Observations on the Boundary and Colonization of New Netherland.