''A box had been kept, however, by the church guardians, holding old books and manuscripts, among which, according to an elderly inhabitant of the town, the baptismal records should have been present. But that box had some years ago been given to the deacons for safe-keeping, and there — since there was no lock on the lid — the female supervisor of the old people's home had cut up the books she discovered in the box for domestic use, as sewing patterns! And so it came about that, although the box is still there, the papers can no longer be found in them.〔Michiel de Ruyter en syn Fryske ûnderadmiraels (Leeuwarder Courant, 4 March 1962); see also an (article ) from "De Navorscher," dated 1854, presumably the source for the article in the Leeuwarder Courant. 〕