Document: Declaration of Gysbert de Wit that powder was smuggled on board the ship St. Pieter

Holding Institution

New York State Archives

Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V2_136c

Description

Declaration. Gysbert de Wit that powder had been smuggled in the ship St. Peter. [1644]

Document Date

1644-12-13

Document Date (Date Type)

1644-12-13

Document Type

Declaration

Translation

Gysbert de Wit, aged fifty years, attests, testifies and declares, in place and with promise of a solemn oath if necessary, at the requisition of the fiscal, that he, the deponent, being on board the ship before Durickerdam,[1] saw Jan van Hoorn’s sloop bring to the ship St. Piter six kegs of powder which were not entered at Amsterdam, and in his opinion they are hidden aft, under the tiller, where there is a hole. The deponent offers to confirm this. Done the 13th of December 1644, on the island of Manhatans, New Netherland.

Gysbert de Wit

Translation Superscripts

[1]: Durgerdam; a village near Amsterdam, on the north side of the Y.

References

From the collections of the New York State Archives, Albany, New York. https://www.archives.nysed.gov/

Translation link see: http://iarchives.nysed.gov/xtf/view?docId=tei/A0270/NYSA_A0270-78_V2_136c.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 2, Register of the Provincial Secretary, 1642-1647 (A. Van Laer, Trans.). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.: 1974.

Copyright to the published bound volume is held by the Holland Society of New York.
A complete copy of this publication is available on the New Netherland Institute website.