her in boyhood,
was taken by Wouter van Twiller into the service of the Company as an
assistant, and afterwards became a tobacco planter. The Company has
aided him with necessaries as it is to be seen by the books, but they
have been paid for.

Olof Stevensen, brother-in-law of Govert Loockmans, went out in the year
1637 in the ship Herring as a soldier in the service of the Company. He
was promoted by Director Kieft and finally made commissary of the shop.
He has profited in the service of the Company, and endeavors to give his
benefactor the world's pay, that is, to recompense good with evil. He
signed under protest, saying that he was obliged to sign, which can be
understood two ways, one that he was obliged to subscribe to the truth,
the other that he had been constrained by force to do it. If he means
the latter, it must be proven.

Michael Jansen came to New Netherland as a farmer's man in the employ of
the proprietors of Renselaerswyck. He made his fortune in the colony in
a few years, but not being able to agree with the officers, finally came
in the year 1646 to live upon the island Manhatans. He would have come
here himself, but the accounts between him and the colony not being
settled, in which the proprietors did not consider themselves indebted
as he claimed, Jan Evertsen came over in his stead.

Thomas Hall came to the South River in 1635, in the employ of an
Englishman, named Mr. Homs, being the same who intended to take Fort
Nassau at that time and rob us of the South River. This Thomas Hall
ran away from his master, came to the Manhatans and hired himself as
a farmer's man to Jacob van Curlur. Becoming a freeman he has made a
tobacco plantation upon the land of Wouter van Twyler, and he has been
also a farm-superintendent; and this W. van Twyler knows the fellow.
Thomas Hall dwells at present upon a small bowery belonging to the
Honorable Company.

Elbert Elbertsen came to the country as a farmer's boy at about ten or
eleven years of age, in the service of Wouter van Twyler, and has never
had any property in the country. About three years ago he married the
widow of Gerret Wolphertsen, (brother of the before mentioned Jacob
van Couwenhoven,) and from that time to this has been indebted to the
Company, and would be very glad to get rid of paying.

Govert Loockmans, brother in law of Jacob van Couwenhoven, came to New
Netherland in the yacht St. Martin in the year 1633 as a cook's mate,
and was take