Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 307 (part 3)
[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Dearest, and conversing with her as man and wife are wont to do, slecjnng in one bed, so that she, deponent, did not know but that they were married people, having treated and regarded them as honest folks, whom she placed at her table along with other honest and decent persons, and had she considered them anything else, she would not have received them; and said person being very particular would make conditions, some days after, to eat with her at noon and in the evening, and to have two rooms; one of which his Dear should occupy, when some gentlemen and friends came to speak with and inquire for him, and another in which such people could be received and entertained, but that they could not agree upon the price; whilst hesitating to give anything for such treatment, they were ejected from her house, and went to the Pooten, to a grocery at the sign of the Universal Friend, opposite the Bagynestraat. She, the deponent, further declares, that the above named person came