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"Monday 6th Decemb'' 1655. In the City Hall [New Am- 

 sterdam] . . . Cornelia Schellinger,^ pltf. v/s Andries Pos, deft. 

 In case of arrest. Deft, appeals to his competent Judge on Staten 

 Island. . . . Whereas it is in case of arrest, the Court decide, 

 that deft, is amenable to this Bench." . . . Plaintiff stated that 

 she had a mortgage on cattle and other property of Lord van der 

 Capelle, and that cattle were killed and sold without satisfying 

 mortgage. (Records New Amsterdam i: 412, 413.) 



" Monday 13th Decemb"" 1655 in the City Hall. Jannetie 

 Melyns,^ pltf. v/s Capt. Adries Pos, deft. Relative to difference 

 about certain cattle, which pltf. has on Staten Island and which 

 deft, prevents her bringing hither; and also that deft, appro- 

 priates, what pltf. still owns there." . . . (Records New Amster- 

 dam 1 : 416.) 



1656. From an Ordinance of the Director General and Coun- 

 cil of New Netherland for the formation of villages, etc., passed 

 i8th January 1656, "charge and command them to concentrate 

 themselves, by next Spring, in the form of Towns, Villages, and 

 Hamlets." (O'Callaghan Laws and Ord. 207.) 



26th January 1656. Director Stuyvesantto the Council " I stop 

 here and impress it upon your Honors' mind, whether it would 

 not be well, to remove also the small garrison on Staten Island, 

 which has no more protection, but much less than the sailors on 

 the yacht." (Col. Doc. 13: 60.) 



April 27th 1656. " Petition. Dirck van Schelluyne, for and on 

 behalf of Mdme. Post, setting forth her husband's illness, and 

 praying that an armed force be sent to Staten Island for the pro- 

 tection of the rights of baron van der Capelle tho Ryssel, patroon 

 of that place, and that another person be sent thither to take care 

 of the property etc." (Calendar N. Y. Hist. Manuscripts 166.) 



April 27th, 1656. "Answer to the above. Nothing on the 

 island worth preserving but the cattle ; recommends the removal 

 of these to Long Island ; population only 6 or 7 persons ; 'twould 

 be folly to send a garrison for their protection, an armed force 

 therefore refused ; approve of Van Schelluyne as Mr. Van der 

 Capelle's agent." (Calendar N. Y. Hist. Manuscripts 166.) 



19th June 1656. "Cornelia Schellinger, pltf, v/s Tryntie van 

 Engelen, deft. Pltf. says that deft, holds her mother's ox in 

 arrest on Staten Island without any reason." (Records New Am- 

 sterdam 2 : 116.) 



^ Daughter of Cornelis Melyn. 



» Jannetie Melyn, wife of Cornelis Melyn. 



