Document: Order dismissing Cornelis and Adriaen van Tienhoven from their several offices

Present at the session:

The lord director general Petrus Stuyvesant

the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille and La Montagne, and the fiscal Cornelis van Tienhoven.

Having read the letter of the lords directors receiver by the ships Bever and Bonte Coe, the fiscal has been informed of the order contained in the same concerning his person and his brother Adriaen van Tienhoven, to wit: that the lords directors had discharged and dismissed him and his brother Adriaen van Tienhoven from their service, who responded that they thanked the directors as well as the director general or councilors that they had kept him on so long; further that he knew well that offices were not inheritances and that the lords directors should be able to dismiss and discharge their servants without giving them reasons for it; however, if it has been done because of some accusation or secret allegation, that he is prepared, if his accusers are pointed out to him, to defend himself, be it here or in the fatherland. Further, he requested that if the director general and councilors had something to say about him, that they be pleased to let him know so that he might defend himself. They replied that they had nothing to say about him concerning his office, but thanked him for services rendered; whereupon he requested that he be granted a certificate and left the session. Dated 7 June 1656.