Document: Declaration of Marten Ael and Abraham Newman that Jochem Pietersen Kuyter had gone to Manhattan with two soldiers when his house was burned

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Document ID

NYSA_A0270-78_V2_135d

Description

Declaration. Serjeant Martin Ael and Abraham Newman, that Jochem Pietersen Kuyter was absent at the Manhattans when his house was burnt. [1644]

Document Date

1644-11-29

Document Date (Date Type)

1644-11-29

Document Type

Declaration

Translation

Before me, Cornelis van Tienhoven, secretary of New Netherland, appeared Marten Ael, sergeant, aged about forty years, and Abraham Nieuman, soldier, aged 34 years, who at the request of the Honorable Mr. Willem Kieft, director general of New Netherland, jointly attest, testify and declare that they lay in garrison at Jochim Pietersen’s when his house burned down, at which time his servants stood sentry, there being in all four soldiers and five farm-hands, two of whom were threshers. Jochim Pietersen had gone to the Manhatans and had taken with him two soldiers. All of which the deponents have confirmed on oath before the fiscal, the 29th of November 1644, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Marten Ael
Abraham Newman

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_135d.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.