Ordinary Session Held in Fort OrangeOctober 2,1657
Present:
La MontagneJacob SchermerhoornPhilip PietersenJan TomassenGoossen GerritsenAdriaen Gerritsen
Adriaen Appel, plaintiff, againstDefault. Lubbert, Labitee’s servant, defendant.
Evert Noldinck, plaintiff, againstDefault. Lubbert, Labitee’s servant, defendant.
Marcelus Janssen, plaintiff, againstDefault. Foppe Barentsen and Meester Adriaen,[1] defendants.
Pieter Stevensen, plaintiff, againstDefault. Henderick Gerritsen, defendant.
The honorable officer, plaintiff, againstDefault. Cornelis Teunissen, defendant.
Cornelis Coenelissen, plaintiff, against Daniel Rinckhout, defendant.The plaintiff demands payment for his house.The defendant maintains that the house was not delivered according to the bill of sale and that the seller has thus far not finished two chimneys, nor made the attic tight, according to said bill of sale.The court, having heard the parties, orders the plaintiff to deliver the house in question in accordance with the contract of sale, or in default thereof to have it finished out of the amount of the first payment.
Carsten Claessen, plaintiff, against Jan Roeloffsen, plaintiff.The plaintiff demands payment of 22 beavers for a horse sold to him, [ the defendant ].The court, having heard the parties, orders the defendant to pay the plaintiff 22 beavers within the space of two months.
The honorable officer, plaintiff, against Engeltjen Comelissen, defendant.The plaintiff says that the defendant on the 14th of September went into the house of Wijnant de Kistemaecker, and without any cause insulted and beat said Wijnant’s wife, named Trijntie Melgers, for which assault, committed against the law, he demands reparation and justice.The defendant admits having committed such an assault, not in the house, but on the doorsill thereof, having first been attacked by Trijntie Melgerts, and offers to prove this on the next court day.The court, having heard the parties, orders the defendant to prove her assertion by sufficient witnesses.
