Document: Order for the discharge of capt. Richard Panton and 4 other Englishmen of Vreedland (Westchester)

The director general and [ council of New Netherland have read the answers given ] in the interrogatories of the lord fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven by [ Capt. Richard ] Panton, Willem Elit, Black March[ and, Jan Gray, and ] Rogier Wheales, all Englishmen, detained for having taken up arms at Vreedlant against the lord director general and accompanying troops on the [left blank], and having received and heard the report of the commissioners who were authorized to attend the interrogation, the director general and councilors have resolved, considering that the same laid down their weapons on the promise of good treatment, not regarding their previous misdemeanors in consideration of the same, to discharge the aforesaid prisoners from their detention and to order the same to depart from the jurisdiction of New Netherland, or unless some of the inhabitants of the villages will post bond for them and assure their good behavior. Thus done in our session held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra.