Many months after this, one of the most intelligent mynheers of the settlement, having been called by business to a far eastern city, declared on his return that, among a troop of soldiers marching to the frontiers, he had recognized Jans Van Dorp and Dark Rob; but, as he failed in speaking to them, his assertion passed for nothing, and his story was dismissed as mere moonshine, too absurd to be believed.
[68] O’Callaghan. Hist. New Neths., vol. i. p. 37.
[69] Ibid. vol. i. ch. 2.
[70] O’Callaghan, Hist. vol. i. bk. iii. ch. 2.
[71] Watson’s Annals of New York.
[72] The writer of this possesses two pieces of embroidery done by one of madame’s pupils.
[73] O’Callaghan, Hist., vol. ii. p. 72.
[74] O’Callaghan, Hist., vol. ii. ch. iv.
[75] Trials from the Criminal Records of Scotland. By R. Pitcairn, Esq.