Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 259 (part 6)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] [From Register of Uitgegane Brieemaf the States General, In the Royal Archives at the Hague.] The States, etc. Folio 113. Honorable, &c.. Whereas we are certainly informed that Secretary Cornelis van Thienhoven is intending to proceed on an early day to New Netherland, we have resolved to request and require you hereby again to detain said Thienhoven and not to allow him to depart, and for that purpose you will write to the skipper of the Ship the Waler/ionl not to receive the abovenamed Thienhoven before and until he hath received and exhibited our consent to his departure. Done 21^' April 1651. 436 NEW-YORK COLONIAL JLVNUSCRIPTS. Fdiiion of certain Dutch Merchants to the States General. [ From the Original id the Koyal Arcliires al the Hagoo; File, West Indie. ]