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" Signed as above, and witnessed by Wybrant Petersen and Mauntz Jansen."
Van Twiller continued to reside for some time at New-Amsterdam after he had retired from the office of director general. The following document, showing a transaction to which he was a party, is taken from the first volume of the Colonial Records, pp. 3—4, which commence with the administration of Gov. Kieft :—
" This day appeared before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, Secretary in behalf of the privileged West India Company, here in New-Netherlands, the Honourable, Wise and Prudent de Heer* William Kieft, from one side, Director General of New-Netherlands, and the Honourable, Wise and Prudent de Heer Wouter Van Twiller, ci-devant Director General, from the other side, who amicably agreed about the rent of the farm (bouwery) No. 1, belonging to the Directors of the privileged West India Company, Department of Amsterdam, viz. that the noble Director Kieft has rented to de Heer Wouter van Twiller, who too acknowledges to have rented said farm, and well for three successive years, to begin May 1st, 1638, and to end May 1st, 1641, and this for the sum of two hundred and fifty caroli guilder^ annually; besides this a fair sixth part of all the produce with which God shall bless the field, either growing on the spot, or gathered in shocks, as then may be agreed to receive by the present Director ; with the stipulation that said Honourable van Twiller shall be obliged at the expiration of the said three years to sow again said farm, and to keep said lands in good order, for all which said contracting parties submit their persons and property, real and personal, present and future, without exception, to the supreme court of the Province of Holland, besides any other courts of justice, all in good faith without any fraud or malice. In truth of which two similar copies have been made, signed by the respective parties.
" Done at the Fort of New-Amsterdam in New-Netherlands, this twenty-second day of April, Anno Domini, 1638.
 William Kieft,  Woxjter Van Twiller."
* The translator renders this title by the English " Sir," (" Sir William Kieft,") which is evidently a mistake, as the title of Sir belongs to a knight, in Dutch, Ridder. Lambrechtsen applies the address de Heer to Rev. Mr. Miller, (de Heer Miller) with the force of little more than Mr.
t A Dutch guilder or florin, of which two and a half are equivalent to a dollar.—Ed.