Document: Order respecting the prisoners captured at Westchester

Concerning the English prisoners, recently brought from Vreedlant out of the village, which they call Westchester, and until now confined aboard the ship de Waagh, it is unanimously agreed and resolved that those who have previously sworn an oath of allegiance to this government, and who have run away either on account of debts or for other reasons, or against whom the lord fiscal as prosecutor and preserver of the peace believes to have a complaint, shall be placed in close confinement by this aforesaid lord fiscal, who is hereby authorized thereto, and who shall proceed against them according to the law. Concerning those remaining who have come to settle within the agreed boundaries either from New England or from other places whether through the deception of Mr. Pel or someone else, and against whom the fiscal has no other complaint, these are to be held in civil detention at the city hall or elsewhere until further examination and orders. In the meanwhile, those who have remained in the aforesaid village are to be summoned to depart from there. Thus done in our session held at Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland. Ady ut supra, (was signed:) P. Stuyvesant, Nicasius de Sille, La Montagne.