Document: Advice of the council to remove the settlers on Staten Island to New Utrecht

Recommendation of the honorable lords high councilors Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne, and Cornelis van Tienhoven made on the foregoing.

The high councilors recommend on the proposal of the honorable lord general that, whereas Captain Post has been mostly living out in the open with his soldiers on Staten Island during this cold winter, without having made any protection or defensive position for himself or his soldiers, and considering the incident and the plundering of the yacht at Sandy Point, which mishap could even be worse for Post and his men, we believe that Captain Post ought to be directed to remove himself, his people, and soldiers, together with his master’s livestock to lord Werckhoven’s place on Long Island, where there is now means of defense, stables for the animals and shelter for the soldiers, maintaining his lord and master’s rights on Staten Island; and if Captain Post refuses to obey this order, for the prevention of murder or other misfortunes, the director general and councilors shall remove the soldiers to their place, and if of a misfortune, they shall be innocent of whatever might happen on Staten Island.

Nicasius de Sille
La Montagne
Cornelis van Tienhoven