against which is written, "This is the mark of Antony Leon, the Spaniard, made by himself"; then, "Albert Cornelisz", and the mark of Nicolaes Stilwil,[5] both as witnesses of the genuineness of the above marks; and beneath, "Acknowledged before me, Jacob Kip, authorized clerk".
After comparison with its original, dated and signed as above, this is found to agree, by me, Jacob Kip, clerk, in the presence of Francooys Noyret and [blank] requested as witnesses hereto, this [blank] September, 1649, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.
Franssoys Noiret, witness.[6]
[1] New York State Archives, Dutch Manuscripts, vol. III., p. 65.
[2] From whom Kip's Bay (East River, about Thirty-sixth Street) is named.
[3] Between Mexico and Yucatan.
[4] I.e., strike ensign and topsail.
[5] Albert Cornelisz was a magistrate of Brooklyn; Nicholas Stilwell, of Gravesend.
[6] It was judicially decided later that the Tabasco was not a good prize. A ray of light is cast on Blauvelt's latter end by an item in an enumeration of English buccaneers in 1663 found among the Rawlinson manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, "Captain Blewfield, belonging to Cape Gratia de Dios [Gracia á Diós, Nicaragua], living among the Indians, a barque, 50 men, 3 guns." Haring, Buccaneers, p. 273.