[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] solemn oath, if necessary, at the request of Marritgen Ommers, widow of Jan Franssen Croon of Hoochvelt deceased, late basket maker in this city, that he testifies and attests that it is true and well known to her that, last winter and in the beginning of this current year 1551, without being certain of the precise time, a person named Mr. Cornells van Tienhoven came divers times to the house of the deponent keeping open tavern at the Ocertoom aforesaid, with Lysbet Janssen Croon of Hoogvelt, daughter of the requirant iierein, and have there at difTerent times, now and then eaten fish and showed and manifested towards each other great love and friendship such as is the custom among sweethearts; moreover, she the deponent on such occasions distinctly heard and understood that the abovenamed Van Tienhoven hath represented himself as a suitor and a single unmarried person, whereupon she, the witness, said toVanTienhoven,If yoube a single man why do you not marry her, (meaning the abovenamed Lysbet.) To which question and observation the aforesaid Van Tienhoven hath answered, I will not marry in this Country, but so soon as we have arrived in New Netherland, I will then marry. Thus done without the City of Amsterdam aforesaid in presence of Mr. Abram Caspars and Martyn Luych, witnesses. Subscribed. Quod attestor rogatus Joanx\is Crossis, Nu ary Public. Upon collation this agrees with its original, dated and signed as above, in New Amsterdam in New Netherland. Signed \,"2','' D.