The Documentary History of the State of New York, Vol. I — Passage 84
[E.B. O'Callaghan (1849)] 422 PAPERS RELATING TO LONG ISLAND. Salee, Turck, but he made satisfaction to the Director General and Council for the same. Also another was Albert Albertse who hired a part of the plantation of C. Van Werckhoven on the Na-jack; he excused himself on the ground of being on hired land, and regarded not the Lords order, in consequence of which the fiscal ex officio brought him on the 19th of August 1660, before the high Council in Fort Amsterdam, and complained of his refusal to obey the ordinance. He was condemned and sentenced as follows, after which he came and resided in the village of Utrecht, which lay near his lands : By the Director General and Council of the New Netherland on a hearing of the parties; We condemn Albert Albertse alias Lintwever, to amends by paying the penalty of 50 guilders as per proclamation, and to stand imprisonment until the fine be paid. On this sentence, after being imprisoned, he paid the fine and then removed within the village of New Utrecht. In this year it happened that one Pieter Roeloffe sold his house and building lot in the village of Utrecht to one Jan Zeelen, and was about selling his farm and meadows, on which he had performed very little labour, to another man; on this Jan Zeelen applied to the Director General and council to have the said lands given to him, knowing that under the circumstances such lands fell to the Director General and Council.