Document: Report of the inquest on the body of Elizabeth________________?

On the 22d of February A° 1649, Mr. La Montagne and Fiscal van Dyck, together with Mr. Jacob[1] and Mr. Jan Pau, surgeons, went to the house of Herry Pirs,[2] by order of the honorable director and council, to examine the dead body of Lysabet [ ], on which corpse was found a small wound on the forehead inflicted by an axe. The above named surgeons declare that the said wound was not lethal, nor the cause of death, and that Elisabet had come to her death by some other accident. In testimony whereof this is signed by the surgeons in the presence of the said gentlemen, on the date above mentioned, in Fort Amsterdam in New Netherland.

Jacob Henderycksz
Jan Pauw
La Montagne
Cor. van Tienhoven