Document: Sentence of Jacob Stevensen Kuyper and his wife

[several lines lost] ordered [ ] It is so as the [ ] Stevense Cuijper, and the [ ] present prisoners [ ] not only were rumored to [ ] strong drink to the wilden; but the matter also conforms with the complaints and declarations of the wilden. The matter is provable, but the above named prisoners being very poor and needy, and it being presumed probably not able to pay the fine, the lord prosecutor is authorized and allowed to concur with this civilly as well as with the expenses of justice etc; with regard to the corporal punishment, it is denied the lord prosecutor for the present time, only both prisoners, Jacob Stevense and his wife are denied and forbidden their abode and residence on Manhattan Island, on the penalty and prompt execution of that, which the lord prosecutor concluded in his claim, the same being hereby authorized and ordered, regarding this, to transport both prisoners to Long Island and to notify them hereof in proper form. Done in Amsterdam in New Netherland, the 5th of December 1656.