[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] iS-• Beneath was: Upon collation, by me, found to agree with the original (dated and signed as above) and ( Signed )P Cornelis van Ruyven, Secretary. Appendix 5. Received 28 January, 1656. Secret. \^e, the subscribers, all of competent age, namely, VVilhelmus Grasmeer, V. D. M. Cornelis de Potter, merchant, Isaack Allerton of Suffolk, merchant, Brian Neuton, Captain-lieutenant, George Baxter, Ensign, Isaack de foreest, Select man, do hereby certify a^d declare on the requisition of the Noble, Valiant and Honorable Petrus Stuyvesant, Director-General of Cura§ao, New Netherland^hat on Saturday, being the Q"" of July, new style, of this curren*. year 1651, in our presence and view, before the said General, in their proper persons, freely came and appeared with other natives,. inhabitants of New Netherland, three, so named Sachems or Chiefs, by name Mattehoorn, Pemenatta and Sinquesz, who in our prjesence, on the propositions submitted to them by the General, through the Interpreter Sander Boyer, in presence of the undernamed witnesses, all of whom are well versed in" the language of the Indians on this river *namely,"Andries Hudde, commissary, RoelofF de Haes, Jan Andriesz. and Pieter Harmensen, all four free inhabitants and traders on the river, residing at Fort Nassau, have answered substantially a^ollows and, after the same was read, confirmed it by solemn shaking of the hands of the General and of us the undersigned.