[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] (Endorsed) Remonstrance of the Delegates from New Netherland to the Most Mighty Lords their High Mightinesses' Deputies on the redress of New Netherland. Received 12"' March, 1G50. Appendix. Before me, Jan Colterman, admitted by the Court of Holland, a notary public, residing in the city of Haerlem, and the undernamed witnesses, appeared the worthy Willem Thomassen, skipper of the ship named de Valckenier, lying in the harbor of Amsterdam, ready to sail for New Netherland; who, at the request of the delegates from New Netherland, testifies and declares by his troth, in place and with tender of an oath, if requisite and required, that it is true that he, deponent, agreed about two weeks ago, to convey as many people in his aforesaid ship to New Netherland, as he can in any way accommodate; and that he has been, every day since, applied to by several other persons, for passage in his, deponent's, ship. And that he, deponent, hath rejected fully as many as thirty persons, for the aforesaid reason, that he cannot accommodate any more people in his vessel; further deponent saith not. Thus executed within the city of Haerlem aforesaid, on the fifteenth of March XVI" and fifty, in presence of Mathys Arentsen Zuyck and Govert van Liphorst, witnesses, invited for the verification hereof, and who, with the deponent and me, the notary, have also signed, in testimony, the original draft hereof. Quod Attestor. (Signed) J. Colterman, Nof Pub.