[ ] present the honorable director general Petrus Stuyvesant and the lords councilors Nicasius de Sille and La Montagne.
D o . Johannes Megapolensis, appellant over the judgment of the magistrates of Fort Orange and village Beverwijck, dated 29 August, last past, pronounced against him, concerning a certain dispute over payment of an account which Jacob d’Hinse had conveyed to Johannes Megapolensis junior for a chest with medicines. Plaintiff.
Contra
Anna Hendrickx, wife of the aforesaid Jacob d’Hinse, barbier, having power of attorney for her husband, defendant.
The plaintiff says that his son Johannes Megapolensis junior, before his departure for the fatherland, sold and conveyed to the aforesaid Jacob d’Hinse his barber’s chest and accompanying medicines for an account of ƒ570:10, a claim thereof the aforesaid d’Hinse said he has on the honorable West India Company and that by the lords directors [ ] when his son comes to Holland [several lines lost] account was carried over that there were recorded two entries to his credit, one of Jan [ ] for ƒ30,– and the other of Laurens Hansen for 10 guilders, which the lords directors had not accepted because the aforesaid persons, who had been debited for it, were not due that much; therefore, he requests and demands payment or settlement of the aforesaid account.
Mattheus de Vosch, appearing for the defendant, answered that the defendant had sold her husband’s account in question out of hand and therefore was not obligated to compensate for that which came up short; and shows a declaration of Johan Baptist van Renselaer, being in substance, how it was that he knew that Johannes Megapolensis junior had sold a chest with medicines to Jacob d’Hinse for an account that Meester Jacob claimed against the Company; that Meester Jacob said that the account was good, but that he could not get the money from the Company.
[several lines lost] The director general and councilors having heard the oral arguments of the parties, seen the submitted evidence, and attended to everything that might be of material interest, declare the judgment to be wrongfully pronounced and well appealed; therefore, pronounce that Jacob d’Hinse is to make good on his sold account, and whatever is found to be lacking to consign and pay to the appellant, and keep his recourse to his debtors; furthermore, the aforesaid condemn the aforesaid de Hinse to the costs and expenses of the court accrued herein. Dated as above.
