New Netherland and Beyond
Immigrants, First Settlers
Deposition of Peter Lawrensen
March 24, 1684/5
Peter Lawrensen aged sixty-seven years being deposed saith that he came into this Province a servant to the West India company in the year 1628, and in the year 1630 by order of the West India
Company, he with seven more were sent in a sloope with hoy sail to the Delaware, where the Company had a trading house with ten or twelve servants belonging to it, which the deponant himself did see
there settled. And he further saith that at his return.... (this page is wanting)
Tho. Dongan.
From Documentary History of the State of New York,
E. B. O'Callaghan, 1849, Vol. III pg 50.
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