Document: Order to John Adams to either defend himself in the suit for slandering Mrs. Beeckman or satisfy the judgment

The director general and councilors of New Netherland,[i] resuming the act of landwinning [ii] granted to Jan Adams last 27 March for a period of six contiguous months, the aforesaid Jan Adams is summoned to the session and ordered, pursuant to the tenor of the aforesaid act of landwinning, to answer for the injurious words and aspersions, which are claimed that he proclaimed against the housewife of Willem Beeckman; either justify himself or make atonement within the period of the aforesaid six months. Dated as above.

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