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Documents Relative to the Colonial History of New York, Vol. I — Passage 360

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[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] Conditional that the Commandant remains on this day to deliver into the hands of the General the Fort Casimier, with all the guns and ammunition, material and other effects belonging to the General Incorporated West India Company. Done, concluded and signed by the contracting parties on the 11"" September, 1655. On board the ship the Waeg riding at anchor near Fort Casimier. Appendix 11. Received 2S January, 1656. Secret. Capitulation between the Hon'''* Valiant Johan Rysingh, Governor of New Sweden on the one part, and the Hon''''' Valiant Petrus Stuyvesant, Director-General over New Netherland, on the other part. First. All guns, ammunition, material, provisions and other effects belonging to the Most Illustrious Crown of Sweden and the South Company, at present in and about Fort Christina, shall be and remain to the above Crown and South Company, and it depends on the pleasure of the Governor to take them with him or to deliver them to the said General Petrus Stuyvesant, on condition they being demanded, shall be restored without any delay. Governor Johan Rising together with all superior and inferior officers, servants and soldiers shall march out with drum beating, fife playing, colors flying, match lighting, bullets in the mouth, with hand and side arms, first to Timber Island,' whither the people, after they will have left the fort, shall be safely conveyed, and lodge in the houses there until