Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 257 (part 6)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] And as the Director and those belonging to the government in New Netherland are sorely wronged and defamed, I request time, in order to await, if necessary, documents to the contrary from New Netherland. Verdonck and his colleagues say, that the Director had instituted personal actions against some. The Director arriving at the house of one Michiel Jansen, a co-signer of the Remonstrance, was notified by said Michiel and by Thomas Hall, saying: — " A scandalous Journal of Adriaen van der Donck is within there." The Director took this Journal away with him, and on account of the calumnies and aspersions it contained, as well against their High Mightinesses as against individuals. Van der Donck was confined to his lodgings, and required to prove what he had written; he was released, however, on the intercession and at the request of others.