Document: Dutch colonial council minutes, 9-15 March 1646

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New York State Archives
Document ID
NYSA_A1809-78_V04_p249
Description

Court proceedings. Robert Coppingh vs. Claes Jansen; defendant is sued as security for a debt; denies being security; offers to take his oath that he signed the paper only as a witness; plaintiff ordered to produce sworn certificates from Robert Dunsterre and William Durant that defendant did sign as principal, and not as witness. Teunis Nyssen vs. Juriaen Fradel, husband of farmer Hendrick's widow, action for recovery of 1,500 guilders; plaintiff ordered to produce proof. Oloff Stevensen (van Cortland) vs. rev. Everardus Bogardus, slander; plaintiff again demands proof of the allegations contained in defendant's answer of the 22d ult., which plaintiff expressly denies; ordered accordingly. [1646];Order. To rev. Mr. Bogardus to answer the papers sent him on the 8th ult., with his reasons why he slandered the magistracy in the pulpit and in his writings. [1646];Court proceedings. Oloff Stevensen (van Cortland) vs. rev. Everardus Bogardus, slander; defendant answers plaintiff's denial of his allegations, which are again repeated, accusing plaintiff anew of having threatened the directors of the company, and enriched himself with his masters' property; plaintiff protests against this calumny and defamation, and declares defendant unworthy of being a clergyman; defendant, ordered a second time to prove his assertions. [1646]

Document Date
1646-03-09 to 1646-03-15
Document Date (Date Type)
1646-03-09
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Minutes
Court
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Translation

Lambert Clomp, plaintiff, vs. Cornelis Teunesen, defendant, demanding that the defendant shall accept the sloop according to the agreement signed by him. Defendant denies that he signed the contract produced by the plaintiff and says that he was not here when the contract was made.

Ordered that the defendant prove that he was not here when the signing took place.

Tonis Nyssen, plaintiff, vs. Jeuriaen Fradel, who married the widow of the late Hendrick de Boer, defendant, for payment of fl. 1500. Ordered that Tonis prove the claim and that Jeuriaen give evidence of what did Jan, after he was wounded, said about what old Jan had received from Hendrick de Boer.

Oloff Stevensen, plaintiff, vs. Everardus Bogardus, defendant, for slander. Plaintiff demands proof of what the defendant lays to his charge in his answer dated the 22d of February, denying the same firmly. Ordered that the defendant prove the same in eight days.

[1]Whereas Domine Bogardus has thus far not answered the papers sent him on the 8th of February, he is hereby ordered to answer them on the next court day and to give the reason why he calumniated the magistrate from the chair of truth and in his writings.

Claes van Elslandt, plaintiff, vs. Sybolt Clasen, defendant. Plaintiff demands security for the claim which he makes on the part of Mr. van Twiller. Ordered that the defendant give security, and if the debt be found just, the defendant is to pay interest on the money.

March 15

Oloff Stevensen, plaintiff, vs. Everardus Bogardus, minister, defendant, for slander. Defendant makes written answer to plaintiff's denial and accuses him, plaintiff, anew of having threatened the honorable directors, as stated in defendant's writing of March 15. Plaintiff accuses defendant as previously of slander and defamation and maintains that he is not worthy to be a minister, inasmuch as he falls to prove that plaintiff enriched himself with his master's goods, which is the first point to be proved. As to the other charge in his answer, he protests that it is false until it is absolutely proved and asks prompt judgment. Ordered for the second time that defendant must prove his allegations in the space of eight days.

Translation Superscripts
[1]: Revised from Doc. Rel. Col. Hist. N. Y., 14:72; reprinted in Eccl. Rec. N. Y., 1:199.
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/A1809/NYSA_A1809-78_V04_p249.xml

Published bound volume is also available: Translation: Scott, K., & Stryker-Rodda, K. (Ed.). New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vol. 4, Council Minutes, 1638-1649 (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.

A1809 Additional Party
Dutch Colonial Council
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New Netherland Council Dutch Colonial Council Minutes (Series A1809 _ 1638-1665)
Box
1
Volume
4
Item
249
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http://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/11646