Document: Order to discharge Dirck Michielsen and Cornelis Martensen from confinement

Holding Institution

Document ID

NYSA_A1809-78_V08_0101

Description

Order. To discharge Dirck Michielsen, a Fin, and Cornelis Martensen, a Swede, from confinement on a charge of giving beer to Indians, on the ground of their ignorance of the law.

Document Date

1656-07-31

Document Date (Date Type)

1656-07-31

Document Type

Order

Minutes

Document Type Unlinked

Order

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Translation

The director general and councilors of New Netherland having seen the interrogatory of the lord fiscal De Sille concerning the dispensing of beer to the wilden, and the replies given thereto by Erick Michiels, a Finn, and Cornelis Martensz, a Swede, presently detained on complaints that they had dispensed beer to the wilden, conclude herewith and from other circumstances in the case that the aforesaid detainees have done so out of ignorance (having just arrived here); also, not to have drunk more than three vaen, of which they only gave the wilden a small amount. For which reason the fiscal ordered that they be released from confinement. Dated as above.

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_V08_0101.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.