Document: Minute of the appearance before the council of Stephen Necker

At the session appeared Steven Necker, relating that Pieter Schoorsteen- veeger with another 5 persons, of whom he was one, on this day had sailed to the aforesaid Schoorsteenveger’s plantation to see if they could fetch some animals from there. After having been there about a half an hour, they were attacked by about 30 Indians (not knowing of what nation they were), and all 6 of them were taken prisoner. Four of them were wounded. And that he, together with Cornelis Mourissen (who was shot in the back with an arrow, so that the surgeon had to remove it from the front), was sent here by the Indians to request as ransom the following that the Indians had marked with notches on a stick:

20 measures of cloth[1] 20 double handfuls of gunpowder10 staves of lead10 kettles2 guns3 swords20 fathoms of sewant90 knives10 pairs of shoes10 pairs of stockings10 adzes10 axes20 tobacco pipes

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