[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Matthew Boucheine, a soldier, being legally summoned to Court, to whom the preceding, his declaration, dated ll"" June, A" 1654, is distinctly read, word for word, and being, on the requisition of the Fiscal asked, if the aforesaid, his deposition, be true and certain in all its parts, and if he be ready with a good conscience to confirm it by oath? Thereupon he, in the presence of the Fiscal Tienhoven answers: So truly help me God Almighty. This 16"" March, A" 1655. Amsterdam in New Netherland. Lower stood: In my presence, and was (Signed) Cornelis van Ruyven, Secretary. Apjiendix 9. Received 2S January, 1656. Secret. Extract from the copy of a letter written by the Swedish Governor, Johan Rysing, to M' Petrus Stuyvesant, Director-General in New Netherland, dated 27"" May, A" 1654, in the South river. I cannot neglect acquainting your Honor that I, being safely arrived some days since in the Royal ship the Aren, with a goodly number of people from the Kingdom of Sweden, have by the judgment and in the name of Her Royal Majesty of Sweden, my most gracious Queen, summoned the fort erected at the Sand point, which, after exclusion of further delay, was voluntarily surrendered with the adjoining Colonists, who learning the reasonable conditions offered them, together with the liberty of going or remaining, repaired under the obedience of Her Royal Majesty aforesaid, and afterwards took the oath of allegiance and fidelity at our hands.