Document: Sentence of John Parcell, alias Botcher

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about which said Ytie [ ] banned [from

this] province for 50 years [ ] in addition, [ had no objections to ] the aforesaid Ytie again [ ] to live and to [ continue to live ] with her in adultery within this province, so that he illegally fathered three children with her, which is a matter that could and should not be tolerated, but, as an example to others, deserves to be punished severely. Therefore, the honorable lords director general and councilors of New Netherland, having heard the claim of the fiscal and Jan Botcher’s own confession, made voluntarily and without torture, and having paid attention to everything that is relevant, performing justice in the name of the honorable high and mighty lords States General of the United Netherlands and the honorable lords directors of the Chartered West India Company, chamber Amsterdam, sentenced and condemned the said prisoner, as they hereby sentence and condemn him to be brought to the place where justice is commonly done, and that he be put at the whipping post with two rods in the arm and be and remain banished from this province for the time of 20 years, and to pay a fine of a hundred guilders in addition to the legal costs made in this case as an example to other such people, denying the fiscal his further claim on and against him. Thus done and sentenced at the meeting of the honorable lord director general and councilors held in Fort Amsterdam in N: Netherland the 25th of November anno 1658 and executed the 30th of the same month.

P Stuyvesant Pieter Tonneman

[in the margin:] [ ] applied [ 1/3 for the ] fiscal [ 1/3 for the ] poor [ 1/3 for the ] church