Document: Examination in council of ensign Dirck Smith on a charge of having sold a gun to an Indian

[several lines lost] [ ] J de La Montagne. The lord general asked the ensign Dirck Smith where his brother’s gun was? He answered that (when the recent foreign wilden named Sinnekens were here) he asked the lance corporal[i] whether guns might be sold to the wilden, who responded, “Ten had been sold at Pieter Cocq’s and at the Haaghe Juffr;[ii] if they can do such business, why shouldn’t we be able to sell one gun?” Therefore he sold his brother’s gun to the aforesaid wilden for 6 beavers, saying further that he hoped it wouldn’t be considered wrong because so many guns have been sold to the wilden here; also, that it has been said that there was consent to sell some munitions of war to these recent foreign wilden; also, that they traded large amounts to the wilden down south, namely Elmerhuysen and Jacquet and many others [two lines lost]

The lance corporal was summoned to the session and appeared. He was asked why he advised others to sell guns, as the ensign has declared above.