Document: Bond of Elbert Elbertsen and others to reappear when called on

Whereas we, the undersigned, have been mercifully released from our confinement by the director general and councilors of New Netherland, we promise, each on his own behalf on his word of honor, to return to confinement upon the [ ] of the director general, aforesaid, or to appear before them whenever the director general and councilors shall be pleased; for the further assurance of what we have promised above, we pledge, each for himself a special bond and under surety, all our moveable and immoveable goods, which shall be forfeited, if we should act contrary to the tenor of this. In acknowledgment hereof we place our signatures thereto at the city hall of the city of Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 15th of July 1656.